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

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Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2017.

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Edition	First edition.
Description	1 online resource
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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.
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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.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
	SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
	Athletes. (OCoLC)fst00820027
	Athletes -- Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst00820062
	Sports in popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01904777
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Other Form:	Print version: Kimball, Richard Ian. Legends never die. First edition. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2017 9780815635062 (DLC) 2017001141
ISBN	9780815654056 (electronic book)

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