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

Englisch

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2017

xii, 201 pages : Illustrationen

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Online-Ausgabe- Kimball, Richard Ian: Legends never die. - Syracuse, N.Y : Syracuse University Press, 2017

978-0-8156-1086-1 : pbk.

978-0-8156-3506-2 : hardcover

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-0-8156-5405-6 (andere physische Form)

*USA / Sportler / Öffentliche Meinung / Idealisierung

*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

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: GV706.5

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 306.4/83

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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