Bricklayer BillThe Untold Story of the Workingman’s Boston Marathon
Patrick L. Kennedy and Lawrence W. Kennedy Foreword by Bill Rogers. The Boston Marathon is filled with iconic characters like John J. McDermott, who won the first contest in 1897, and Johnny Kelley, who finished the race 58 times. Equally notable is “Bricklayer Bill” Kennedy, a working class Irish-American who was part of the amateur…
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