Frank Shorter won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1972 Olympics in Munich and followed it up four years later with a silver in Montreal. This hour, we’ll talk with one of the fathers of American distance running about how a tough childhood propelled him to athletic greatness, the subject of his memoir “My Marathon: Reflections on a Gold Medal Life” (Rodale).
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