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<p class="null1">The legendary long-distance runner details&nbsp;his historic victory in the 1975 Boston Marathon that launched the modern&nbsp;running boom</p> <p>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&nbsp;the only marathoner to have appeared on the cover of <i>Sports Illustrated</i> twice. Winning the Holy Grail of marathons in an unthinkable record time changed Bill’s life forever.</p> <p>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&nbsp;nearly half a million.</p> <p>Thirty-seven&nbsp;years later Bill Rodgers still possesses the s

Author

Rodgers, Bill, Shepatin, Matthew

Publisher

New York: Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250021151

Subjects

Anthropology, Memoir, Biography

Rating

4.1 / 5 (311 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14