The Boston Globe, July 24th, 1992
The setting was unpretentious at best, but this was the world of indoor track. Jack Pierce was sitting in a corridor beneath Byrne Arena in the Meadowlands complex in East Rutherford, N.J., talking about his rebirth as a high hurdler as the Vitalis/Meadowlands Invitational was about to pass out of existence. He'd quit his job as a nightly employee in the slot cleanup area at Harrah's casino in Atlantic City just the week before. This was Feb. 10, 1989, and Pierce had just won his fourth race in five indoor meetings. He was starting to find out that he really could compete against legends named...
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