A Place We Could All Call Home, by Toni Reavis, note by Larry Eder: My first visit to the Bill Rodgers Running C...

A Place We Could All Call Home, by Toni Reavis, note

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A Place We Could All Call Home, by Toni Reavis, note by Larry Eder: My first visit to the Bill Rodgers Running C...

Among its other nicknames Boston is known as "The Hub of the Universe" - often shortened to The Hub - a title first conferred by Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1858. While the designation might seem a tad presumptuous given the size and scope of at least one other burg some 220 miles to the southwest which contains five boroughs and seven million inhabitants, it is safe enough to say that the Hub of the Running Universe in the decade from 1977 to 1986 existed at 372-A Chestnut Hill Avenue in Boston'sCleveland Circle . That was the address of the original Bill Rodgers Running Center , or the Mother Ship, as those of us who called it a second home liked to call it after two more locations were established in Faneuil Hall downtown and out in Worcester, Mass. some 50 miles west in the years to follow. For those too young to remember, even after the Running Boom hit in the wake of Fr...

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