An illustrated history of the Olympics
Dick Schaap
Hardcover
(Knopf, March 15, 1963)
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1963. 1st Edition, Hardbound, about 11 inches tall by 9.5 inches wide, 319 pages. Appendix, index. Illustrated with more than 400 photographs (eight in color). Foreword by Sargent Shriver. This captures all the drama of the Olympics, from the days of Coroebus of Elis, a cook who won the first recorded Olympic event in 776 B.C., to the days of Abebe Bikila, an Ethiopian who ran barefoot to win the Marathon in Rome in 1960.
