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Author : Greg Hoffman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780913374641
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)
Download or read book The Art of World Team Tennis written by Greg Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Schwarz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)
Download or read book World Team Tennis and the Legacy of a Sports League written by John Schwarz and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although World Team Tennis (WTT) in its original form lasted only five years (1974-1978), it left an indelible legacy in the world of sports. It gave its owners, executives, broadcast media personalities, managers, representatives and sports writers a foothold in the world of sports that still extends today. WTT graduates Robert Kraft and Jerry Buss became the gold standard of professional sports owners while others worked their way up to the top echelons in the business of sports. The league also played an important role in the fight for recognition and equal pay for women in the professional tennis world. It helped lead to today where professional tennis has become the most egalitarian of all professional sports in compensation for both men and women competitors at the sport's major events.Both the events and people involved in WTT are traced in this book. While the early version of WTT folded in 1978, its story needs to be told. With Billie Jean King as one of its original founders, players such as Chrissie, Martina, Vitas, Ilie, Bjorn and Jimmy all competed and together put their stamp on the concept of men and women competing as teammates. The fact that Team Tennis rose from the ashes three years later and still exists today, almost fifty years since, is a testament to the strength and importance of the underlying idea of a professional tennis league. John H. Schwarz served as Executive Director for both the World Team Tennis League and the Boston Lobsters in the heyday of WTT. Now retired after a long career that included CFO of a publicly traded international construction and real estate company, he consults to various businesses. He resides in Austin, Texas, where he writes and still follows sports.
Author : Benjamin Snyder
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781480837775
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (377 download)
Download or read book HIST OF WORLD TEAMTENNIS written by Benjamin Snyder and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of World TeamTennis covers the league's rich history from its start in the early 1970s to its historic 40th season celebration in 2015. Over the years, the biggest stars in tennis have played for the league, which was co-founded by equal rights pioneer and tennis champion Billie Jean King, including Martina Navratilova, Pete Sampras, Chris Evert, Andy Roddick, Serena and Venus Williams, and Andre Agassi. Benjamin Snyder has written for and worked with Billie Jean King since interning for World TeamTennis in 2011. Snyder has covered tennis extensively over the years and shares new interviews with some of the sport's most well-known players--as well as owners and others who have made the league a success. He also reveals how the league has promoted inclusivity and equality, living up to what King writes in the foreword: "If you have ever seen a World TeamTennis match, you have seen my philosophy of life in action--men and women--all genders--competing on the same team, making equal contributions, working together toward a common goal." Celebrate the players, founders, and supporters who have made World TeamTennis possible with this detailed history.
Author : Michael MacCambridge
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538708043
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)
Download or read book The Big Time written by Michael MacCambridge and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Indispensable history.” –Sally Jenkins, bestselling author of The Right Call A captivating chronicle of the pivotal decade in American sports, when the games invaded prime time, and sports moved from the margins to the mainstream of American culture. Every decade brings change, but as Michael MacCambridge chronicles in THE BIG TIME, no decade in American sports history featured such convulsive cultural shifts as the 1970s. So many things happened during the decade—the move of sports into prime-time television, the beginning of athletes’ gaining a sense of autonomy for their own careers, integration becoming—at least within sports—more of the rule than the exception, and the social revolution that brought females more decisively into sports, as athletes, coaches, executives, and spectators. More than politicians, musicians or actors, the decade in America was defined by its most exemplary athletes. The sweeping changes in the decade could be seen in the collective experience of Billie Jean King and Muhammad Ali, Henry Aaron and Julius Erving, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Joe Greene, Jack Nicklaus and Chris Evert, among others, who redefined the role of athletes and athletics in American culture. The Seventies witnessed the emergence of spectator sports as an ever-expanding mainstream phenomenon, as well as dramatic changes in the way athletes were paid, portrayed, and packaged. In tracing the epic narrative of how American sports was transformed in the Seventies, a larger story emerges: of how America itself changed, and how spectator sports moved decisively on a trajectory toward what it has become today, the last truly “big tent” in American culture.
Author : Sky Kim
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539985655
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (856 download)
Download or read book The Art of War written by Sky Kim and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of War: Art of Tennis compares the similarities between warfare and tennis. It emphasizes the importance of the role of the team including the parents, the coach, and the player, in helping players to be able to play to their full potential, much like the way a king, his tactical advisor, and the combat general all have their roles in running a strong nation. The most difficult unanswered questions about playing competitive tennis and trying to reach world-class status are answered by examining the experiences of top junior and professional players and comparing them to one of the most well-known military books in history, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, a renowned ancient Chinese military tactician and philosopher. From pre-planning, mental attitude, understanding the scoring system, anticipating opponents from their physical cues, anger management to decision making in the match, The Art of War: Art of Tennis will help readers understand the common difficulties of competitive tennis to mentally prepare parents, coaches, and players alike for the road ahead.
Author : William T. Tilden
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781589633322
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (333 download)
Download or read book The Art of Lawn Tennis written by William T. Tilden and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tennis is at once an art and a science. The game as played by such men as Norman E. Brookes, the late Anthony Wilding, William M. Johnston, and R.N. Williams is art. Yet like all true art, it has its basis in scientific methods that must be learned and learned thoroughly for a foundation before the artistic structure of a great tennis game can be constructed.
Author : Marcia Frost
Publisher : Mansion
ISBN 13 : 1932421165
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (324 download)
Download or read book American Doubles-- the Trials, the Triumphs, the Domination written by Marcia Frost and published by Mansion. This book was released on 2008 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the successes of such legends as Billie Jean King and Stan Smith to the current No. 1 men's team of Bob and Mike Bryan, the story of how Americans have come to rule the doubles court is a fascinating tale told by a longtime journalist and tennis insider Frost.
Author : David Shaftel
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1913462021
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Racquet written by David Shaftel and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best writing on tennis from the best tennis writers in the business. Racquet was founded in 2016 to be the voice of a new tennis boom. When the popularity of tennis peaked in the late '70s and early '80s, the sport was populated by buccaneering talents with outsize personas, such as Borg, Evert, McEnroe, Navratilova, Gerulaitis, Austin, King, and Connors. The game was played in every park, and tennis clothes became appropriate attire for cocktails as well as for a match. With success, however, came polish, and tennis--if not the game itself, then how it came to be represented in the culture--got boring. Having a big personality was no longer a virtue. Tennis went back to being a bastion of the elite. Racquet is a place for those who knew all along that the spirit of the tennis boom was alive. Tennis has always been present in the arts, in the popular culture, in the skateboarding, hip-hop, and fashion worlds. That side of tennis was--and is--obscured by the tightly controlled messaging of the athletes, the corporate glean of the major tournaments, and the all-white attire of the country-club scene. Racquet was launched to represent the latent, diverse, and large constituency of tennis that has not been embraced by the sport writ large. Featuring the work of some of today's finest writers, the quarterly independent magazine highlights the art, culture, and style that are adjacent to the sport--and just enough of the pro game to keep the diehards satisfied. This collection features some of the best writing from the first four years of Racquet and tackles such immediate topics as: How should tennis smell? What's the deal with Andre Agassi's private jet? What can a professional tennis player learn from Philip Roth? Why is tennis important in Lolita? How was Arthur Ashe like Muhammad Ali? And, crucially, what lessons have we learned from the implosion of that first tennis boom?
Author : Noelle Cleary
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780802139412
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Art and Power of Being a Lady written by Noelle Cleary and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2002-08-27 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that the term "lady" should be re-examined and brought back into circulation, the author shows readers how to achieve civility and grace in an often uncivil world.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1898 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1979 with total page 1898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Tatem Tilden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Art of Lawn Tennis written by William Tatem Tilden and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Angela Lumpkin
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book A Guide to the Literature of Tennis written by Angela Lumpkin and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1985-11-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide, covering the entire spectrum of tennis subjects, lists and evaluates more than 950 English-language books and over 150 tennis films and videotapes. Among the subjects treated are rules and techniques of play; histories of the game; biographies and autobiographies of champion players; psychological approaches to improving one's game; advice on matters of fitness, physicial conditioning, and rehabilitation of tennis-related injuries; the construction and maintenance of tennis courts; tennis in schools and recreational settings; the administration of tournaments; tennis equipment; the traveling tennis player; tennis humor; and tennis films and videotapes.
Author : Matthew Cronin
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1118015959
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Epic written by Matthew Cronin and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A top tennis writer tells the story of the greatest Wimbledon, the greatest U.S. Open, and the greatest rivalry in the history of the game The epic 1980 Wimbledon final that ended with John McEnroe's defeat by his idol, Bjorn Borg, is considered the greatest tennis match ever. The U.S. Open final later that year, when McEnroe got his revenge, is considered the greatest U.S. Open ever. These two matches marked McEnroe's transformation from tennis player into an American icon, the high point of tennis's gigantic leap into the national consciousness, and the beginning of Borg's rapid and surprising decline. This book takes you back to that amazing summer at the height of the golden age of tennis. Includes fascinating details about John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg both on and off the court, from grueling practice sessions to late-night partying Packed with stories and anecdotes of top tennis players and coaches, including Vitas Gerulaitis, Mary Carillo, Lennart Bergelin, and others Highlights a pivotal moment in the evolution of the game?from quiet to loud, from wood to metal racquets, and from European to American dominance Written by veteran tennis writer and analyst Matthew Cronin Whether you're a longtime tennis fan or a recent convert, Epic will give you a deeper understanding of the game and of two of the most amazing players ever to have played it.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1979-06-18 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Author : Stanley Elkin
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453204407
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Living End written by Stanley Elkin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elkin’s darkly comic novel of the afterlife—the story of one man’s redemptive journey to hell and back When he is killed during a holdup at his Minneapolis liquor store, Ellerbee’s bad luck is only beginning. After a short stint in heaven, Ellerbee is banished to hell, abruptly and without explanation. What follows is a surreal and memorable adventure that brings Ellerbee face-to-face not only with his murderer’s accomplice, but also with God, Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and a host of others, all in his quest for salvation unlike any other. Moving and witty, The Living End is a hilarious send-up of afterlife clichés and a masterful exploration of the absurdities of human existence. This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1892 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1977-07 with total page 1892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mitchell K. Hall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742575861
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Crossroads written by Mitchell K. Hall and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2005-09-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vietnam War affected nearly every aspect of American life. It altered the economy, challenged citizens to reassess their values, and played a key roll in the downfall of two presidential administrations. However, most people's attention remained focused on their daily lives—including the latest movie, the baseball score, and the new group on American Bandstand. But those elements were not immune from the war's effects. American popular culture changed dramatically during the Vietnam era—from Leave it To Beaver to All in the Family and from Bobby Darin to Bob Dylan. In Crossroads, historian Mitchell K. Hall explores the popular culture that shaped the baby boomers and the transformation that generation wrought in movies, television, sports, and music. As he traces the evolution of American culture, Hall looks at the ways in which these cultural elements not only underwent radical structural changes, but also reflected the upheaval and unrest in Vietnam era America.
