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The last folk hero : the life and myth of Bo Jackson / Jeff Pearlman.
Van Pelt Library GV865.J28 P43 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pearlman, Jeff, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jackson, Bo, 1962-.
- Jackson, Bo.
- African American athletes--Biography.
- African American athletes.
- Baseball players--United States--Biography.
- Baseball players.
- African American baseball players--Biography.
- African American baseball players.
- Football players--United States--Biography.
- Football players.
- African American football players--Biography.
- African American football players.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 484 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Mariner Books, [2022]
- Summary:
- Drawing on 720 original interviews, a New York Times best-selling sportswriter captures as never before the elusive truth about the greatest athlete of all time who took the world by storm from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s--and then, almost overnight, disappeared.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 "The Little Rock Chucker"
- ch. 2 A Black Bruce Jenner
- ch. 3 Emergence
- ch. 4 Don't Mess with Bo Jackson
- ch. 5 The Epitome of Superman
- ch. 6 Village on the Plain
- ch. 7 Bus Station
- ch. 8 Off Base
- ch. 9 Greg Pratt
- ch. 10 Paydays
- ch. 11 A Baird Man
- ch. 12 Senioritis
- ch. 13 Clutter
- ch. 14 Bucked Up
- ch. 15 Memphis
- ch. 16 Royal
- ch. 17 Mixed Royalties
- ch. 18 The Different Running Back
- ch. 19 Monday Night
- ch. 20 Icon
- ch. 21 The Greatest Year I
- ch. 22 The Greatest Year II
- ch. 23 Prime Time
- ch. 24 Hip
- ch. 25 Reduced
- ch. 26 The Return
- ch. 27 A Hog's Heart on a Fence Post
- ch. 28 The Circus Act
- ch. 29 Aftermath.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-464) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780358437673
- 0358437679
- OCLC:
- 1347188286
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