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Author Hornblum, Allen M., author

Title American Colossus : Big Bill Tilden and the creation of modern tennis / Allen M. Hornblum ; foreword by John Newcombe
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]

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Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1; 1. A Game of Society; 2. A Useless Kid Who Would Never Be Worth Anything; 3. Always Keep Mentally Alert; Part 2; 4. A Year of Living Triumphantly; 5. You Hit Too Hard; 6. No Ordinary Man; 7. The Boss of All Tennis Players; 8. Evil Influence; 9. The Greatest Wizard the Game Has Known; Part 3; 10. Three against One; 11. Decidedly Unlike Tilden; 12. Tilden Has Been a Stormy Petrel; Part 4; 13. A Burning Affection for the Game; 14. Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Tilden, William T. (William Tatem), 1893-1953.
SUBJECT Tilden, William T. (William Tatem), 1893-1953 fast
Subject Tennis players -- United States -- Biography
Tennis -- History
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Sports.
GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
Tennis
Tennis players
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781496204332
1496204336
9781496204318
149620431X