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Igniting the Flame: America's First Olympic Team Jim Reisler
Igniting the Flame: America's First Olympic Team
Jim Reisler
The story of the fourteen men - largely forgotten and never the subject of a full-length book - who created the American Olympic movement by winning eleven gold medals at the first modern Olympics in 1896 in Athens, timed for publication leading up to the 2012 U. S. Olympic Trials and the 2012 Olympics in London.
296 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 5, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9780762778485 |
| Publishers | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Pages | 296 |
| Dimensions | 239 × 162 × 24 mm · 535 g |
| Language | English |
| Contributor | Dave Wottle |