- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Uniform Title
- Legends never die (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Legends never die (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2017010234
- OCLC
- ssj0001798899
- Author
Kimball, Richard Ian.
- Title
Legends never die [electronic resource] : athletes and their afterlives in modern America / Richard Ian Kimball.
- Imprint
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2017.
- Edition
First edition.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Connect to:
- Other Form:
Print version: Kimball, Richard Ian. Legends never die First edition. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2017 9780815635062 (DLC) 2017001141