There are many who claim that it is wrong for a sophisticated society to impose a set of behavioral expectations on fallible people who just so happen to excel in sports. ... Children look up to these sports figures as "idols" who are invincible. ... Thus we look up to great superstars as celebrities. ... And it was ten years later, during the Great Depression that the nation was still able to lose itself in the heroics of this hero who appeared to be unscathed by the financial woes of normal people. ... Prior to that, in the public's eye, Mantle was a Yankee slugger who was...

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