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Legends never die : athletes and their afterlives in modern America

Title
Legends never die : athletes and their afterlives in modern America / Richard Ian Kimball.
Author
Kimball, Richard Ian
Publication
  • Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2017.
  • ©2017

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Description
xii, 201 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Sports and entertainment
Uniform Title
Sports and entertainment.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • 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.
ISBN
  • 9780815635062
  • 0815635060
  • 9780815610861
  • 0815610866
LCCN
2017001141
OCLC
YBP 2017001141
Author
Kimball, Richard Ian, author.
Title
Legends never die : athletes and their afterlives in modern America / Richard Ian Kimball.
Publisher
Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2017.
Copyright Date
©2017
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Sports and entertainment
Sports and entertainment.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Form:
Online version: Kimball, Richard Ian. Legends never die. First edition. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2017 9780815654056 (DLC) 2017010234
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