title: Sporting Lives: Metaphor and Myth in American Sports Autobiographies (Sports and American Culture)
author:  James W. Pipkin 
description: <DIV><P>&ldquo;<I>Sporting Lives</I> is unfailingly well written and engaging. Drawing on an amazing range of sports autobiographies, it is a delight to read.&rdquo; <B>&mdash;Fred Hobson, author of <I>Off the Rim: Basketball and Other Religions in a Carolina Childhood</I></B></P></DIV>
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  Copyright © 2021 by Kylie Gilmore
  
  
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