4-time Boston Marathon Champ Bill Rodgers VINTAGE autographed photocard-VINTAGE!

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Check it out...Here's a VERY UNCOMMON 5" wide by 3" tall photocard with a 100% authentic HAND-SIGNED AUTOGRAPH of legendary 4-time Boston Marathon Champion Bill Rodgers on front- The card has a large black ink signature signed "Bill Rodgers 1976 U.S. Olympic Team Marathon" on front and has a photo of Rodgers attached. GREAT item ready for display! What a great vintage item with a 100% authentic signature! This is an ORIGINAL item, NOT REPRODUCTION item! Postage information is listed at the bottom-$ 4.95 postage is required.
4-time Boston Marathon Champ Bill Rodgers VINTAGE autographed photocard-VINTAGE!
4-time Boston Marathon Champ Bill Rodgers VINTAGE autographed photocard-VINTAGE!
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Check it out...Here's a VERY UNCOMMON 5" wide by 3" tall photocard with a 100% authentic HAND-SIGNED AUTOGRAPH of legendary 4-time Boston Marathon Champion Bill Rodgers on front- The card has a large black ink signature signed "Bill Rodgers 1976 U.S. Olympic Team Marathon" on front and has a photo of Rodgers attached. GREAT item ready for display!
Here's some info on Mr. Rodgers:
William Henry "Bill" Rodgers (born December 23, 1947) is an American runner and former American record holder in the marathon who is best known for his four victories in the Boston Marathon, including three straight 1978-1980 and the New York City Marathon between 1976 and 1980. Rodgers received his B.A. in sociology from Wesleyan University. One of his teammates, Amby Burfoot, won the Boston Marathon while still a student and went on to edit Runner's World magazine. Rodgers also has an MS in special education from Boston College. Rodgers won both the New York City Marathon and the Boston Marathon four times each between 1975 and 1980, twice breaking the American record at Boston with a time of 2:09:55 in 1975 and 2:09:27 in 1979. In 1977, he won the Fukuoka Marathon, making him the only runner ever to hold the championship of all three major marathons at the same time. He made the 1976 U.S. Olympic team and raced the marathon at the Montreal Olympics in 1976, finishing 40th. He did not participate in the Olympics in 1980 due to the U.S. boycott over the invasion of Afghanistan by the USSR. In 1975, Rodgers won the bronze medal at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, equaling Tracy Smith's 1966 bronze in the International Cross Country Championships as the highest an American had ever finished in international cross country competition. Rodgers' most remarkable year on the road racing circuit came in 1978 when he won 27 of the 30 races he entered, including the Pepsi 10 km nationals (with a new world road 10 km best time of 28:36.3), the Falmouth Road Race, and the Boston & New York marathons. Rodgers is also the former world record holder for 25 kilometers as he broke Pekka Päivärinta's world record with a time of 1:14.11.8 on a track at West Valley College in Saratoga, California in 1979. Track & Field News ranked Rodgers #1 in the world in the marathon in 1975, 1977 and 1979. Of the 59 marathons Rodgers ran, 28 were run under 2:15. In all he won 22 marathons in his career. He came to be referred to by sportswriters and others as "Boston Billy". Rodgers was inducted on December 3, 1999, in Los Angeles, California to the National Track & Field Hall of Fame located in Indianapolis, Indiana. In 1998, Rodgers was inducted in the first round to the National Distance Running Hall of Fame in Utica, New York. Bill Rodgers Running Center in Faneuil Hall Market Place in Boston, Massachusetts was owned and operated by Bill and his brother Charlie. The family-run business operated from 1977 to 2013. He currently lives in the small town of Boxborough, Massachusetts and still participates in running-themed events.
What a great vintage item with a 100% authentic signature! This is an ORIGINAL item, NOT REPRODUCTION item!
Postage information is listed at the bottom-$ 4.95 postage is required.
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