This year’s Boston Marathon carries extra weight for Red Sox pitcher Rich Hill, a Milton native, after his father, Lloyd, died Friday at age 94.
Lloyd Hill Sr. ran the Boston Marathon 37 times, according to WBZ’s Dan Roche, who chatted with Rich Hill about his father’s legacy.
“Words can’t describe how kind he was towards everybody and the way he treated everyone,” Hill told Roche. “But also, running 37 Boston Marathons was an amazing feat. We just found that out the other day. I always thought it was in the ’20s, then I asked him, and he said, ‘No, we started in 1958.