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Also by David Davis:

The Academy: Alignment, February 2016
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Showdown At Shepherd's Bush, June 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Texas Aesop's Fables, September 2008
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Showdown At Shepherd's Bush
David Davis

Thomas Dunne Books
June 2012
On Sale: June 19, 2012
320 pages
ISBN: 0312641001
EAN: 9780312641009
Kindle: B006ZL9EEQ
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Sports

"The epic clash of an Irish-American, Italian, and Onondaga-Canadian that jump-started the first marathon mania and heralded the modern age in sports

The eyes of the world watched as three runners--dirt poor Johnny Hayes, who used to run barefoot through the streets of New York City; candymaker Dorando Pietri; and the famed Tom Longboat--converged for an epic battle at the 1908 London Olympics. The incredible finish was contested the world over when Pietri, who initially ran the wrong way upon entering the stadium at Shepherd's Bush, finished first but was disqualified for receiving aid from officials after collapsing just shy of the finish line, thus giving the title to runner-up Hayes. In the midst of anti-American sentiment, Queen Alexandra awarded a special cup to Pietri, who became an international celebrity and inspired one of Irving Berlin's first songs. David Davis recalls a time when runners braved injurious roads with slips of leather for shoes and when marathon mania became a worldwide obsession. Standing next to Cait Murphy's Crazy '08 as an invaluable look at a bygone sporting era, this dramatic narrative is aimed at the recordsetting number of marathon participants in the United States (more than 500,000 in 2010!) and timed nicely for the return of the Olympics to London in 2012"--

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