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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JSTOR
Stock Number
22573/ctt1hjs839
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Title
Legends never die.
International Standard Book Number
9780815635062
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Athletes-- United States-- Death.
Athletes-- United States-- Public opinion.
Athletes-- United States, Biography.
Premature death-- Social aspects-- United States.
Sports in popular culture-- United States.
Athletes-- Public opinion.
Athletes.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.