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Anything for A T-Shirt: Fred LeBow and the New York City Marathon, the World's Greatest Footrace
by
Ron Rubin
"Fred Lebow was a dreamer, the kind of dreamer who pursued his dream and made it a reality. And the world is still reaping the rewards." So begins this uplifting chronicle of a humbly born Holocaust survivor who parlayed natural marketing smarts--and a vision--into a major position in recent American sports. He started the New York City Marathon, an event that tr...more
Paperback, 232 pages
Published
October 1st 2004
by Syracuse University Press
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I love any story - fiction or otherwise - where a person wants something, then stops at nothing to go out and get it. I'm like that, and I admire it in other people. Fred Lebow exemplified this ideal, and after reading this story, my admiration for him went straight off the scale. As for the storytelling itself, the author could have reached for a thesaurus every once in a while, and had a weird habit of re-introducing certain people in full every time he mentioned them in new chapters, but the ...more
If this doesn't make you want to run the NYC Marathon, then you probably aren't a long distance runner. It will also make you aware that Fred LeBow is the father of the modern, everyone can run Marathon and that all us runners owe him a big debt of gratitude.
I didn't really like this book too much. However, while reading this book, i can perfectly understand the desire Fred had to win that marathon T-shirt. It seems as i the marathon is a symbol of his own life. Even though he is struggling with brain cancer, he did not give up on runing in the marathon. This shows how even though he have brain cancer, he will not give up his life. He will live his life until whenthe end really comes.
I enjoyed this book. It was interesting as a runner, a New Yorker and a member of NYRR to see how the marathon came to be. The backstory about LeBow was interesting and all new to me.
However, it kind of read like a text book and therefore almost took me a year to complete.
However, it kind of read like a text book and therefore almost took me a year to complete.
If you've run the NYC marathon, or any marathon for that matter, you know all about the hard work that you put in for that shirt.
However, this book isn't quite as good as the t-shirt and Fred Lebow is.
However, this book isn't quite as good as the t-shirt and Fred Lebow is.
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