Marathon Man My 26.2-Mile Journey from Unknown Grad Student to the Top of the Running World

Rodgers, Bill & Matthew Shepatin

ISBN 10: 1250016983 / ISBN 13: 9781250016980

Published by Thomas Dunne Books, 2013

About this Item

Signed and inscribed (takes up a full page) by Bill Rodgers on front endpaper and also signed by Benji Durden on inside front cover (he wrote "Always enjoy your running" and then added 1980 Olympic Marathon after his name. First edition, first printing. Hard cover published by Thomas Dunne Books in 2013. Brown covers with gilt lettering. Covers are slightly bowed. Rear endpaper has a small indentation on side edge. Book is in very good minus condition. Dust jacket has slight edge wear and is in very good condition. Large 8vo, 322 pages, 1.2 lb.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 322 pages; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # MSR16417

Bibliographic Details

Title: Marathon Man My 26.2-Mile Journey from ...

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books

Publication Date: 2013

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First Edition; First Printing.

About this title

Synopsis:

The legendary long-distance runner details his historic victory in the 1975 Boston Marathon that launched the modern running boom

Within a span of two hours and nine minutes, Bill Rodgers went from obscurity to legend, from Bill Rodgers to "Boston Billy." In doing so, he instantly became the people's champ and the poster boy for the soulful 1970s distance runner. Having won the Boston Marathon and New York Marathon four times each, he remains the only marathoner to have appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated twice. Winning the Holy Grail of marathons in an unthinkable record time changed Bill's life forever.

But his dramatic breakthrough in Boston also changed the lives of countless others, instilling in other American runners the belief that they could follow in his footsteps, and inspiring thousands of regular people to lace up their shoes and chase down their own dreams. In the year before Rodger's victory at the 1975 Boston Marathon, 20,000 people had completed a marathon in the United States. By 2009, participants reached nearly half a million.

Thirty-seven years later Bill Rodgers still possesses the same warm, endearing, and whimsical spirit that turned him into one of America's most beloved athletes. In Marathon Man he details for the first time this historic race and the events that led him there.

About the Author:

A four-time winner of the Boston and NYC Marathons, BILL RODGERS holds five current American records and one current world record. A spokesperson for the Etonic Shoe Company, Running Times and the Bill Rodgers Running Center, he was inducted into the National Distance Running Hall of Fame in 1998.

MATTHEW SHEPATIN has written for the New York Post, Esquire, Playboy, New York Magazine, The Village Voice, and co-authored You Can't Catch Sunshine with Jets Hall of Famer Don Maynard.