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Title Legends never die : athletes and their afterlives in modern America / Richard Ian Kimball.
Author Kimball, Richard Ian.
Publisher Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2017.
Description xii, 201 pages ; 23 cm
Edition First edition.
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 EI-Adult Collection  306.483 KIM Nearby on shelf  30626003275514 07-10-18  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : making immortals -- Why Lou Gehrig was lucky : a meditation on the mortality of American athletes -- The Gipper wins one for the Gipper : George Gipp, Knute Rockne, and Ronald Reagan -- Only cowgirls get the blues : Bonnie McCarroll and Lane Frost -- Who killed Benny Paret? -- "Princess Diana with a pushbroom mustache" : Dale Earnhardt and the narratives of a NASCAR death -- To an athlete dying old : Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Ted Williams.
Other edition Online version: Kimball, Richard Ian. Legends never die First edition. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2017 9780815654056
Subject Sports in popular culture -- United States.
Athletes -- United States -- Death.
Athletes -- United States -- Public opinion.
Athletes -- United States -- Biography.
Premature death -- Social aspects -- United States.
ISBN 9780815610861
9780815610861
0815610866
9780815635062
0815635060