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A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African American Athlete

By Arthur Ashe

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9780471735427 | 3 edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, September 30, 2007), cover price $19.95

A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African American Athlete 1970 to Present

By Arthur Ashe

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9780471735526 | 3rd edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, July 30, 2006), cover price $30.00

A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African American Athlete 1946-1969

By Arthur Ashe

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9780471735465 | 3rd edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, August 10, 2005), cover price $19.95

A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African American Athlete 1919-1945

This informative book gives readers the whole history of blacks in baseball, from its infancy in black colleges to the present, covering the establishment of both major leagues and the Negro Leagues, Jackie Robinson's reintegration of professional sports, and Curt Flood's struggle to establish a free agency.

By Arthur Ashe

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9781567430073, titled "A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete 1919-1945" | New rev su edition (Amistad Pr, May 1, 1993), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This informative book gives readers the whole history of blacks in baseball, from its infancy in black colleges to the present, covering the establishment of both major leagues and the Negro Leagues, Jackie Robinson's reintegration of professional sports, and Curt Flood's struggle to establish a free agency.

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9780471735441 | 3rd edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, August 10, 2005), cover price $19.95

Days of Grace: A Memoir

The late tennis champion and social activist remembers his experiences in the segregated South of his youth, his triumphs on the court, his family and religious life, and his struggle with AIDS

By Arthur Ashe

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9780816158836 | Large print edition (G K Hall, December 1, 1993), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The late tennis champion, social activist, and AIDS victim tells his remarkable, courageous story, from his career as the first great African-American tennis player to his battle against AIDS

9780679423966 | Random House Inc, July 1, 1993, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The late tennis champion and social activist tells his story from his career as a black tennis player to his battle against AIDS

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9780816158843 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, December 1, 1994), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The late tennis champion, social activist, and AIDS victim tells his remarkable, courageous story, from his career as the first great African-American tennis player to his battle against AIDS

9780345386816 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, June 1, 1994), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: The late tennis champion and social activist remembers his experiences in the segregated South of his youth, his triumphs on the court, his family and religious life, and his struggle with AIDS

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780679424345 | Random House, June 1, 1993, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The late tennis champion and social activist tells his story from his career as a Black tennis player to his battle against AIDS.

Prebinding:

9780785728511 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: The late tennis champion and social activist remembers his experiences in the segregated South of his youth, his triumphs on the court, his family and religious life, and his struggle with AIDS

Arthur Ashe on Tennis: Strokes, Strategies, Traditions, Players, Psychology, and Wisdom

The tennis champion and AIDS activist offers advice to players of all levels, providing detailed instruction on fundamentals and match-tested strategies and commenting on notable tennis players from the past and present. Reprint.

By Arthur Ashe and Alexander McNab

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9780380727155 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, June 1, 1996), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: The tennis champion and AIDS activist offers advice to players of all levels, providing detailed instruction on fundamentals and match-tested strategies and commenting on notable tennis players from the past and present.

Arthur Ashe on Tennis: Strokes, Strategy, Traditions, Players, Psychology, and Wisdom

A compilation of instructional advice and tennis tips from the late champion details the fundamental techniques of the sport, as well as the art of the mental game, and offers commentary on great players past and present. 50,000 first printing.

By Arthur Ashe and Alexander McNab

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9780679437970 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 1, 1995), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A compilation of instructional advice and tennis tips from the late champion details the fundamental techniques of the sport, as well as the art of the mental game, and offers commentary on great players past and present

Days of Grace

By Arthur Ashe

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9780749318031 | Gardners Books, June 13, 1994, cover price $10.15

The Negro Novelist: A Discussion of the Writings of American Negro Novelists 1940-1950

Product Description: Examines 'the complete output of American Negro novelists in a decade where the black writer emerged as a strong force in American letters,' and documents how the Negro writer viewed the American literary scene. Hughes analyzes the work of Himes, Motley, Yerby, Ellison, Wright, and many others...read more

By Arthur Ashe (contributor) and Carl Milton Hughes

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9780806500065 | Citadel Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Examines 'the complete output of American Negro novelists in a decade where the black writer emerged as a strong force in American letters,' and documents how the Negro writer viewed the American literary scene.

A Hard Road to Glory: Track & Field : The African-American Athlete in Track & Field

Product Description: African-American athletes have been excelling in track and field since the first modern Olympics. While this volume tells the story of such internationally known athletes as Carl Lewis, Jesse Owens and Wilma Rudolph, among others; it also introduces or reminds us of such steller performers as John Woodruff, Wyomia Tyus and Nell Jackson...read more

By Arthur Ashe

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9781567430394 | Reprint edition (Amistad Pr, December 1, 1993), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: African-American athletes have been excelling in track and field since the first modern Olympics.

A Hard Road to Glory: Boxing : The African-American Athlete in Boxing

Product Description: Boxing has given the African-American athlete an opportunity to catch the national imagination through physical prowess. The earlier boxers, such as Jack Johnson and Joe Louis, stood as symbols of black equality if not superiority...read more

By Arthur Ashe, Kip Branch, Ocania Chalk and Francis Harris

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9781567430363 | Amistad Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Boxing has given the African-American athlete an opportunity to catch the national imagination through physical prowess.

A Hard Road to Glory: Football : The African-American Athlete in Football

Product Description: African-American athletes changed the game of football. Who? How? and When? are the questions answered in this volume devoted completely to the African-American's participation in football. It has the stories and records of club, college and professional players, as well as coaches -- including the achievements of athletes in the traditional black colleges...read more

By Arthur Ashe

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9781567430387 | Reprint edition (Amistad Pr, December 1, 1993), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: African-American athletes changed the game of football.

A Hard Road to Glory: Baseball : The African-American Athlete in Baseball

Product Description: This passionate look at the sport is more than a baseball story. It is also a social history of the nation. Using the statistics of the past -- someknown and hidden, others unknown and only recently ferreted out -- Ashe puts the African-American baseball player back into the game...read more

By Arthur Ashe

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9781567430356 | Reprint edition (Amistad Pr, December 1, 1993), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: This passionate look at the sport is more than a baseball story.

A Hard Road to Glory: Basketball : The African-American Athlete in Basketball

Product Description: The story of the African-American athlete in basketball is one of omission to domination -- at least on the court.Â Ashe traces this development from the club players of the 1920s to the colleges -- including the achievements of athletes in the traditional black colleges -- and on the professional basketball players of today...read more

By Arthur Ashe, Kip Branch, Ocania Chalk and Francis Harris

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9781567430370 | Reprint edition (Amistad Pr, December 1, 1993), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The story of the African-American athlete in basketball is one of omission to domination -- at least on the court.

Arthur Ashe: Portrait in Motion

A diary record of the professional tennis star's thoughts and activities during one year of world travel and competition, covers championship matches, world politics, personal opinions, and fellow tennis players

By Arthur Ashe and Frank Deford

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9780786700509 | Reprint edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, September 1, 1993), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A diary record of the professional tennis star's thoughts and activities during one year of world travel and competition, covers championship matches, world politics, personal opinions, and fellow tennis players

A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete 1619-1918

A history of black athletes spanning three hundred years traces the history of sports to African, culture, features profiles of black athletic stars, and explores the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation and other events on black sports (view table of contents)

By Arthur Ashe

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9781567430066 | New rev su edition (Amistad Pr, May 1, 1993), cover price $29.95

9780446710060 | Little Brown & Co, November 1, 1988, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A history of black athletes spanning three hundred years traces the history of sports to African, culture, features profiles of black athletic stars, and explores the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation and other events on black sports

A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete Since 1946

Product Description: This informative book gives readers the whole history of blacks in baseball, from its infancy in black colleges to the present, covering the establishment of both major leagues and the Negro Leagues, Jackie Robinson's reintegration of professional sports, and Curt Flood's struggle to establish a free agency...read more

By Arthur Ashe

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9781567430080 | Rev sub edition (Amistad Pr, May 1, 1993), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This informative book gives readers the whole history of blacks in baseball, from its infancy in black colleges to the present, covering the establishment of both major leagues and the Negro Leagues, Jackie Robinson's reintegration of professional sports, and Curt Flood's struggle to establish a free agency.

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9780792480617 | Bdd Promotional Book Co, June 1, 1991, cover price $9.98

A Hard Road to Glory

By Arthur Ashe

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9781567430226 | Abridged edition (Amistad Pr, April 1, 1993), cover price $24.95

A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete 1619-1918/a History of the African-American Athlete 1919-1945/a History of the Afric

By Arthur Ashe

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9781567430097 | Revised edition (Amistad Pr, February 1, 1993), cover price $109.85

Off the Court

Examines the career of tennis great Arthur Ashe and discusses his off-court endeavors, including his struggle against apartheid and his efforts to gain recognition for the Black athletes of South Africa

By Arthur Ashe and Joel Dreyfuss

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9780453004008 | New Amer Library, September 1, 1981, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Examines the career of tennis great Arthur Ashe and discusses his off-court endeavors, including his struggle against apartheid and his efforts to gain recognition for the Black athletes of South Africa

Arthur Ashe's Tennis Clinic

Full-color drawings accompanied by Ashe's incisive comments illustrate basic and advanced techniques for improving one's tennis game and demonstrate strategy for singles and doubles play

By Arthur Ashe

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9780671429041 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1981, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Full-color drawings accompanied by Ashe's incisive comments illustrate basic and advanced techniques for improving one's tennis game and demonstrate strategy for singles and doubles play

Mastering Your Tennis Strokes

Five world-class players, including Ashe, Okker, and Roche, provide expert instruction in the development and applications of the five basic strokes in which they excel

By Arthur Ashe

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9780689705625 | Macmillan Pub Co, March 1, 1978, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Five world-class players, including Ashe, Okker, and Roche, provide expert instruction in the development and applications of the five basic strokes in which they excel

Getting Started in Tennis

The Wimbledon champion introduces beginners to forehand, backhand, footwork, and other techniques, explains tennis rules and etiquette, and gives tips on exercises, diet, practice, and apparel

By Arthur Ashe

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9780689108266 | Encore Editions, October 1, 1977, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A Wimbledon champion instructs beginning players in the mechanics, rules, strategy, and etiquette of tennis.

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