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What We Talk About When We Talk About Ralph Sampson : An Essay from Eating the Dinosaur

Originally collected in Eating the Dinosaur and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Sports, this essay is about athletic success and failure.


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  • Chuck Klosterman

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  • E-book

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  • 18 pages

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English

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  • Essays and reportage
  • Essays

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