Showdown at Shepherd's Bush: The 1908 Olympic Marathon and the Three Runners Who Launched a Sporting Craze by David Davis

Showdown at Shepherd's Bush: The 1908 Olympic Marathon and the Three Runners Who Launched a Sporting Craze

David Davis

320 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction historical history sports informative slow-paced
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The epic clash of an Irish-American, Italian, and Onondaga-Canadian that jump-started the first marathon mania and heralded the modern age in sportsThe eyes of the world watched as three runners—dirt poor Johnny Hayes, who used to run barefoot thr...

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