Author: Tom Murphy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998371238
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Languages : en
Pages :
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For more than 50 years, from 1929 into the 1980s, Jock Semple was the heart and soul of the Boston Marathon. He was a top runner (nine times he finished in the top ten in 30s and 40s,) a trainer of marathon champions, including John J. Kelley, Bill Rodgers, Patti Catalano, and co-director of the race. "Just Call Me Jock" captures the color and passion of Jock's love for the Boston Marathon, including his side of the Kathrine Switzer "Great Chase," when in 1967 Jock sought to retrieve the official Boston Marathon number he had assigned Kathrine "by mistake," in an era when women were not permitted by the rules to compete. Jock pursued Kathrine down the road, as the legion of press photographers clicked away, and in turn he made himself "infamous," while making Kathrine "famous." The book tells how Jock made up with Kathrine and became a avid supporter of women's running. Published again for a new generation of runners and readers on the 50th anniversary of the "Great Chase," the book is designed to support the Barb's Beer Foundation (a 501c3) dedicated to finding a cure for lung cancer in the name of Barb Murphy, a Boston Marathon runner and late wife of the book's co-author, Tom Murphy. See more about the book and the lung cancer campaign at barbsbeer.org.
Author: Karl R. Bossi
Publisher: Gondola Press
ISBN: 9780975981115
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Runner's World magazine aims to help runners achieve their personal health, fitness, and performance goals, and to inspire them with vivid, memorable storytelling.
Author: Kenneth Turpin
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456847953
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
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This book follows a young boy who grew up in Leeds, West Yorkshire, and a set of circumstances that happened in The Grange School in Seacroft. The year is 1949 and children were coming to school, some of them who had lost their fathers in the war. It was a poor time, but as months passed, things got better. This young lad made curiosity get the better of him. At the age of twenty-three, he had reached the top of his chosen trade, and so he decides to visit his Aunt in Australia and try his luck there. Luck remained on his side as his inquisitiveness and curiosity led him to untold riches.
Author: Mike Farrell
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1933354089
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Highlights the life of the actor famous for his role in the television series "M*A*S*H" and "Providence," and describes his interest in politics and human rights around the world.
Author: Tom Murphy
Publisher: Encircle+ORM
ISBN: 1948338041
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175
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A reporter and an ex-baseball-player-turned-cameraman search for a mysterious runner in this cozy mystery inspired by a real-life Boston Marathon legend. There has been a long-standing belief that a woman slipped into the 1951 Boston Marathon undetected and ran the race. If that could be proven it would make her the first woman to have run a marathon on American soil. She wore “red,” as claimed by a group of Canadian runners who say they tried to bring the matter to the attention of race Director Jock Semple and other race officials. But to no avail, their story was never corroborated, and so today the “Runner in Red” remains a mystery and an urban legend. A period piece set against the backdrop of the 2000 Boston Marathon, the Millennial marathon, this fictional mystery novel is also a love story, family drama, and uplifting tale of the human spirit that explores the history of women’s running in page-turning fashion. “A great story of three amazing women.”—Bill Rodgers, four-time winner of the Boston Marathon “Moves faster than a speeding bullet through the streets of Boston.”—Katherine Switzer, first registered woman runner of the Boston Marathon (1967) “An entertaining, fast-paced mystery thriller.”—Jack Fultz, winner of the 1976 Boston Marathon “A magical story!”—Uta Pippig, three-time Boston Marathon women’s champion (1993-1995)
Author: Brian B. Kelly
Publisher: ibooks
ISBN: 1596875224
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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Just Call Me Whitey is a coming of age story set in a half-forgotten America at the cusp of tectonic national—and generational—changes that still deeply resonate. It reveals a time and place when America was only first emerging from its sordid history of bigotry and hate, where a black man could not become President of the United States and was routinely denied even society’s most common conveniences such as the use of a lunch counter or a public drinking fountain. The focus is on the life of Bill Doyle as he learns to relate his own life to others without using the color bar. Time and toil have rendered an earlier version of Bill’s story, published in 2010 as Smartass, An Awakening, even more relevant today. Brian Kelly graduated from Harvard with honors in English in 1967. He is currently working on four additional novels, Our American, Mother Russia, Commie Spy and The Soviet Patriot From Brooklyn, to complete a Russian quintet which began with The Irish Smuggler, a tale of international criminal adventure, published in 2013. Our American will be published in 2016 and Mother Russia in early 2017. Kelly’s first novel, Tropic of Paradise, A Tahitian Love story, published in 2010, is another coming of age tale, but set on the ‘island of love’ in a golden hued South Pacific. Kelly currently lives and works far from Tahiti, in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Author: Mrs. Oliphant
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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'Sir Tom' is a novel by Mrs. Oliphant about a man named Sir Thomas Randolph, who had lived a somewhat stormy life during the earliest half of his career. He had gone through what the French called a jeunesse orageuse; nothing very bad had ever been laid to his charge; but he had been adventurous, unsettled, a roamer about the world even after the period at which youthful extravagances cease. Nobody ever knew when or where he might appear. He set off to the farthest parts of the earth at a day's notice, sometimes on pretext of sport, sometimes on no pretext at all, and re-appeared again as unexpectedly as he had gone away. He had run out his fortune by these and other extravagances, and was at forty in one of the most uncomfortable positions in which a man can find himself, with the external appearance of large estates and an established and important position, but in reality with scarcely any income at all, just enough to satisfy the mortgagees, and leave himself a pittance not much more than the wages of a gamekeeper. If his aunt, Lady Randolph, had not been so good to him it was uncertain whether he could have existed at all, and when the heiress, whom an eccentric will had consigned to her charge, fell in his way, all her friends concluded as a matter of certainty that Sir Tom would jump at this extraordinary windfall, this gift of a too kind Providence, which sometimes will care for a prodigal in a way which he is quite unworthy of, while leaving the righteous man to struggle on unaided. But for some time it appeared as if society for once was out in its reckoning.
Author: Kathrine Switzer
Publisher: Rodale
ISBN: 9781594863301
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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A visual and narrative tour of marathon history throughout the world examines marathon popularity in social, philosophical, athletic, fashion, cultural, and scientific contexts, featuring photography by such top contributors as Helmut Newton and Susan Meiselas. 25,000 first printing.
Author: Cheryl Moran
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483640205
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Mason and Mandi Morgan were successful married business partners. At Mandi’s suggestion, they venture out to visit some of their holdings. They didn’t expect to fi nd turmoil at their last stop. The Cooke offspring were determined to stay together after the death, tragically and suddenly of their parents. When they met the Morgans, they found a way to do that.
