The 1929 Bunion Derby: Johnny Salo and the Great Footrace Across America

by Charles B. Kastner

Book Overview

On March 31, 1929, seventy-seven men began an epic 3,554-mile footrace across America that pushed their bodies to the breaking point. Nicknamed the "Bunion Derby" by the press, this was the second and last of two trans-America footraces held in the late 1920s. The men averaged forty-six gut-busting miles a day during seventy-eight days of nonstop racing that took them from New York City to Los Angeles. Among this group, two brilliant runners, Johnny...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081561036X
• ISBN13: 9780815610366
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"