Duel in the Sun: Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon by John Brant

Duel in the Sun: Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon

John Brant

210 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction sports emotional informative medium-paced
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The 1982 Boston Marathon was great theater: Two American runners, Alberto Salazar, a celebrated champion, and Dick Beardsley, a gutsy underdog, going at each other for just under 2 hours and 9 minutes. Neither man broke. The race merely came to a ...

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