Legends never die : athletes and their afterlives in modern America / Richard Ian Kimball.

Author/creator Kimball, Richard Ian
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
PublicationSyracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2017.
Description1 online resource
Supplemental ContentJSTOR
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Kimball, Richard Ian. Legends never die. First edition. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2017 9780815635062
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2017010234
ISBN9780815654056 (e-book)
ISBN0815654057 (e-book)
ISBN(hardcover ; alk. paper)
Stock number22573/ctt1hjs839 JSTOR