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Article: AFTER 50 YEARS, AN ERA HAS DIED
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 17, 1987
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The pages of the Globe sports section are emptier this Boston
Marathon weekend; the prose of Jerry Nason is no longer with us as
we head to the starting line. He had been the voice and the
conscience of this race, his words singing out so lyrically in all
those years when the distance was the same but the size of the
field was grass roots America.
Johnny Kelley is the race's enduring giant on the roads, but
Nason was its giant in print. He fanned the flames when there was
no corporate sponsorship, escorting it into the modern era with a
powerfully nostalgic feeling for its past. Nason wrote the lead
story on the race for the Boston Globe for 50 years, 50 out of 90.
He loved this race in ...