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Igniting the flame : America's first olympic team
- Title
- Igniting the flame : America's first olympic team / Jim Reisler.
- Author
- Reisler, Jim, 1958-
- Publication
- Guilford, CT : Lyons Press, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 17-5411 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 285 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The story of the fourteen men - largely forgotten and never the subject of a full-length book - who created the American Olympic movement by winning eleven gold medals at the first modern Olympics in 1896 in Athens, timed for publication leading up to the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials and the 2012 Olympics in London"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- "Nothing more than a glorified pickup squad" -- "Games at Athens? What games?" -- A rousing start -- The Baron -- "All were stupefied" -- "Lithe forms and springy steps" -- "Most gratifying to every Princeton man" -- "Man of many parts" -- Smoking guns -- "A foreigner should not win this race!" -- "Jesu Christo! I'm freezing!" -- "Rah! rah! rah! Ellas, Ellas, Ellas, Zito!" -- "A set of men that the nation may well feel proud of" -- "Good feelings and fellowship predominated" -- Appendix. 1896 Olympic results.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-5411
- ISBN
- 9780762778485
- 0762778482
- LCCN
- 2012018702
- OCLC
- 756579211
- Author
- Reisler, Jim, 1958-
- Title
- Igniting the flame : America's first olympic team / Jim Reisler.
- Publisher
- Guilford, CT : Lyons Press, 2012.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-5411