The Wizard of Foz: Dick Fosbury's One-Man High-Jump Revolution

by Bob Welch

Book Overview

Track and Field Writers of America's Book of the Year "Great read .... Evokes a time and place that many of us remember well, and provides insight for those who came after. "--Tom Jordan, author of Pre: The Story of America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine

In 1968, perhaps the finest US Olympic men's track-and-field team ever stirred the world in unprecedented ways, among them the victory stand black rights protest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1510736190
• ISBN13: 9781510736191
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"