Globe Pequot / Lyons Press
Pages: 296
978-0-7627-7848-5 • Hardback • June 2012 • $24.95 • (£18.95)
978-0-7627-8660-2 • eBook • June 2012 • $23.50 • (£17.95)
JIM REISLER is the author of eight baseball books, most notably Babe Ruth: Launching the Legend, praised by The New York Times Sunday Book Review. Reisler has written for Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, New York Daily News, and Newsweek. Jim is a frequent guest on sports radio shows, including Bob Costas’s national satellite show and National Public Radio’s Morning Edition.
As nearly 600 U.S. athletes prepare to compete in the 2012 Summer Games, here’s the inspiring story of the first fourteen who created the American Olympic movement by winning eleven gold medals at the 1896 Olympics in Athens
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USA; Northeastern Ivy League milieu; Athens, Greece in 1896