Boston Marathon: Year-by-Year Stories of the World's Premier Running Event

by Tom Derderian, Joan Benoit Samuelson (Foreword by), Bill Rodgers (Foreword by), Shalane Flanagan (Foreword by), Amby Burfoot (Foreword by)

Overview

From running legend Tom Derderian comes a comprehensive look at one of the most storied and celebrated athletic events in the nation, the Boston Marathon.

For more than 110 years, the race has been regarded as one of the world’s great racing traditions. From the narrow starting line on Main Street, through the Screams Tunnel, past the coeds of Wellesley, and up the infamous Heartbreak Hill, Derderian chronicles the unforgettable passions, triumphs, and pitfalls of every race in the marathon’s storied history. The book also includes interviews and race recaps from marathoning greats such as Bill Rodgers, Joan Benoit Samuelson, Meb Keflezighi, Uta Pippig, Alberto Salazar, Frank Shorter, Kara Goucher, Ryan Hall, Desiree Davila, Geoffrey Mutai, Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, and dozens more.

Complete with more than one hundred photographs and results from every year, Boston Marathon belongs on the shelf of every runner.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781510724280
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	03/14/2017
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	880
Sales rank:	954,405
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Amby Burfoot won the Boston Marathon in 1968 and joined Runner's World ten years later. He became executive editor in 1985, and he held the position for twenty years before retiring in 2013. Amby has run 110,000 miles in his lifetime and owns the US's longest active "race road streak," having completed the Thanksgiving Day 5-mile run in Manchester, Connecticut, fifty-five years in a row. Currently a writer at-large for Runner's World, he has been honored by numerous running organizations both as an athlete and as a writer. Now in his early seventies, he continues running up to thirty miles a week.

Table of Contents

Forewords Joan Benoit Samuelson Bill Rodgers ix

Foreword to the 2017 edition Amby Burfoot xiii

Foreword to the 2017 edition Shalane Flanagan xvii

Why They Come Back to Boston xix

Introduction: Death in the Eye xxxi

Chapter 1 1897-1909 The First Marathon Runners 1

1897 The Start at Metcalf's Mill 3

1898 Ronald MacDonald 8

1899 Larry the Blacksmith 10

1900 Jack Caffery and Billy Sherring 12

1901 Ronald MacDonald's Return 18

1902 The Strenuous Life 21

1903 In Defiance of the Doctor 24

1904 The Streak of Yellow 28

1905 The Joker Goes Wild 31

1906 Rather Slow Plumber's Helper 35

1907 The Most Favored Favorite 38

1908 No Favorite at All 43

1909 The Inferno 46

Chapter 2 1910-1919 The Great War Decade 53

1910 Men With Schedules 54

1911 Clarence, Festus, Fabre, and Fowler 57

1912 Mud, Rain, and Ryan 60

1913 Swedish Revenge 63

1914 My Shadow Ran Faster 66

1915 Snowshoe 69

1916 Finnish Catch-Up 71

1917 War Clouds and War Flags 74

1918 The Khaki-White Relay 77

1919 Why Carl Smiled at Frank 79

Chapter 3 1920-1929 The Running Twenties 83

1920 Peter the Greek 85

1921 A Celebration of Pals 88

1922 The Herugans 91

1923 Saved by a Safety Pin 94

1924 26 Miles, 385 Yards? 97

1925 Chewing Tobacco and the Daily News 102

1926 DeMar 104

1927 Miles 109

1928 Joie Ray 115

1929 Redemption 119

Chapter 4 1930-1939 The Depression Years 123

1930 The Master's Victory 125

1931 A Reason to Smile 130

1932 What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor? 135

1933 A Job for Jimmy 140

1934 The Frood Finn 142

1935 The Big Kiss 146

1936 Deerfoot of the Narragansett 151

1937 Unemployed and Penniless 156

1938 No Finer King 161

1939 Just Tarzan in the Rain 165

Chapter 5 1940-1949 More War Years 169

1940 Gerard's Big Cigar 170

1941 It's in the Blood 176

1942 War! 180

1943 Military Marathoners 185

1944 Boot Camp 187

1945 The People's Choice 192

1946 Starving Greeks 195

1947 Oppressed Koreans 200

1948 Vogel vs. Cote 204

1949 Undone by a Time Trial? 207

Chapter 6 1950-1959 No More Plodders 211

1950 Van Zant, Choi, Ham, and Song 213

1951 Hiroshima 219

1952 Inferno II 224

1953 World Record? 228

1954 Blueberry Juice 234

1955 Vicissitudes 239

1956 The Boy to Beat 244

1957 Victory From Behind the Finish Line 248

1958 The Hot Yugoslavian 252

1959 Detective Shark Finn 258

Chapter 7 1960-1969 Times They Are A-Changin' 261

1960 Kelley's Limit 262

1961 Top Dog 267

1962 Where's Kelley? 272

1963 Bikila 274

1964 The Right Stuff 280

1965 Prudential 287

1966 Bobbi 292

1967 Kathrine 300

1968 Kelley's Pupil 308

1969 The Self-Made Marathoner 313

Chapter 8 1970-1979 The Boom Years 319

1970 Hard Rain 321

1970 A Cold and Lonely Woman 329

1971 Kicker's World 332

1971 She Rolls Sevens 337

1972 Finnish Precision 340

1972 Women, Official at Last 344

1973 A Conscientious Objection 349

1973 A Wee Bit o' Notoriety 354

1974 The Limerick 359

1974 "A Little Bit of a Thing" 364

1975 If I Only Had a Brain 366

1975 "Billy, I'd Really Like a Beer" 374

1976 Hose the Runners! 376

1976 Thigh Smash 381

1977 The Angry Victor 384

1977 Michiko Again 390

1978 The Jinx! 391

1978 Just Wan tin' to Be Up There Forever 398

1979 Inscrutable, Inscrutable 401

1979 Micmac Patti and the Storekeeper's Daughter 405

Chapter 9 1980-1989 The Last Amateurs, The New Professionals 411

1980 Angry Young Man 413

1980 The Rosy Ruse 418

1981 Zen and the Art of Marathon Running 429

1981 Down Under on Top 436

1982 The Rookie and the Farm Boy 443

1982 The Incidental Victory 450

1983 Don't Let the Wise Guy Lead 452

1983 "I'd Rather Burn Out Than Rust" 455

1984 Where Is Everyone? 462

1984 The BodyMind Connection 467

1985 The Walking Wounded 471

1985 To Pay the Rent 483

1986 Money, Money, Money 485

1986 Hegne Norge 494

1987 The Waiting Game 498

1987 Rosa and José From Portugal 503

1988 The Africans 506

1988 One Thousand Women 518

1989 More Africans 521

1989 I'll Be Back 527

Chapter 10 1990-1995 New World Order? 531

1990 The Jinx and the Mad Africans 533

1990 A Road to Freedom 545

1991 Insha' allah 552

1991 Not Fade Away 557

1992 Coach Hussein 563

1992 Winning Is Not Enough 567

1993 The Way and the Light 572

1993 Olga With the Chip on Her Shoulder 580

1994 My God Is Able 584

1994 Love and Muscle 591

1995 Secrets and Agents 597

1995 A Kiss Is Not Just a Kiss 604

Chapter 11 1996-1999 Boston Marathon History 617

1996 Mambo Baddu 618

1996 "I had some problems …" 625

1997 Cosmas vs. Moses? 630

1997 Uta Four in a Row? 634

1998 Kenyan Invasion 637

1998 The Flags of Victory 641

1999 The Last Race of the 20th Century 644

1999 Charming Champion Suspended 648

Chapter 12 2000-2009 Y2K? 655

2000 A New Century for the Marathon 656

2000 Roba Back for #4 Win? 660

2001 In Memory of the Father 662

2001 Roba vs. Ndereba 664

2002 Is There Security Enough? 667

2002 Ndereba the Great Returns 670

2003 Weapons of Mass Destruction 673

2003 From Russian with Love 676

2004 Can You Beat the Heat? 678

2004 No Top Americans 683

2005 Culpepper American Hope 686

2005 My God Is Bigger 689

2006 Sweet Chariot 693

2006 Passport to Victory 698

2007 Defending Champ Returns 701

2007 Strong Field for Patriots Day Marathon 705

2008 Riots and Panics 708

2008 No American Women This Time 711

2009 God's Flan Plays Out: The Last Lion Standing 714

2009 To the Kicker Belongs the Spoils 716

Chapter 13 2010-2016 Terrorism Comes Back to Boston 721

2010 More Cows and a Few Sheep 722

2010 No American Women Favored to Win 727

2011 Run Like the Wind 731

2013 USATF Competition Rules 735

2011 Minus the Not Winning 737

2012 Hotly Contested 741

2012 Group Think 745

2013 Touch and Go Tactics 750

2013 Jeptoo's Great Leap Forward 758

2014 Boston Strong 767

2014 Wicked Pissed Off About the Bombings 772

2015 The First Normal Race 777

2015 Racing Is Not Logical 780

2016 Many National "Olympic Trials" 786

2016 It's Not Over Until … 789

The Boston Marathon and Commitment to Film 793

Acknowledgments 797

Appendix of Men's and Women's Winners 798

Unofficial Era 802

Why They Will Always Come Back to Boston 803

Appendix A Boston Marathon Winners 806

Appendix B Runners' Affiliations 809

Bibliography 811

Index 814

About the Author 828