Scanning my hometown newspaper The Dayton Daily News yesterday I saw a story about Edwin Moses, Dayton's third most famous, home towner after Orville and Wilbur Wright. And most track nuts will give me a hard time about that statement. A documentary on his life debuted last night at Moses' alma mater Morehouse College. The title is "Moses - Thirteen Steps" signifying his taking the 400 meter hurdles to a new level by reducing the number of steps between hurdles from fourteen to thirteen. As you probably already know, Edwin Moses was not sought after by college coaches as an athlete. His accomplishments were modest at Fairview High School. But his academics were not modest, they were outstanding. Tom Archdeacon, a long time sports writer with The 'News covered the story in his usual manner, very well. Tom tells the story much better than me, so.... Here is the link:
In the the article there is a picture of Edwin Moses sitting in a car with another person in a parade. I believe that person is the actor Rob Lowe, another Dayton native.