Track and Field (18-Aug-1935 — 2-Dec-2020)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Rafer Johnson; with Philip Goldberg. The Best That I Can Be: An Autobiography. Doubleday. 1998. 270pp.

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Public Information Research Namebase [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

7. New York Times Obituary [link]

8. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.351)

9. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.377)

10. American Lives: Sports (vol.1, pp.477-79)

11. ESPN Sports Almanac 2004 (p.526)

12. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.265)

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