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The B.A.A. at 125: The Official History of the Boston Athletic Association, 1887-2012

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Founded in 1887 and celebrating its 125th anniversary in 2012, the Boston Athletic Association is among the oldest sports organizations in The usa. It’s best known today for its signature annual event, the Boston Marathon, which is the third-largest marathon and attracts tens of thousands of participants and world wide media coverage. But the B.A.A. has also been amazingly prescient in anticipating what would turn out to be one of the vital major social trends of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: the modern fitness movement. Imagine one of the most B.A.A.’s firsts:

  • Nine out of the fourteen members of the USA team participating in the modern Olympic Games in Athens (1896) were B.A.A. athletes.
  • The B.A.A. launched the first US marathon, the Boston Marathon, in 1897.
  • The B.A.A. pioneered and actively promoted many of today’s popular sports, including football and water polo.
  • The original B.A.A. club house, in the historic Back Bay section of Boston, is the precursor of today’s health club.


Still, the B.A.A. story isn’t simply one of athletic achievements and firsts. It’s also the dramatic story of people and the times in which they lived—a social history that unfolds in nineteenth-century Boston but takes readers around the globe, up to the present, and includes a large and international cast of characters. A wonderfully illustrated history,The B.A.A. at 125 highlights the Boston Athletic Association’s important role in American sports history.

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