Legends never die : athletes and their afterlives in modern America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kimball, Richard Ian (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2017.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Sports and entertainment.
Subjects:	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. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.