Product Description: Compiled by the most famous tennis journalist and historian in the world, this book is the ultimate compilation of historical tennis information, including year-by-year recaps of every tennis season, biographical sketches of every major tennis personality, as well as stats, records, and championship rolls for all the major events...read more

Product Description: Shows the distinctiveness of Garston's flat, solid colorful figures - work that is often compared to that of early American folk artists and the pre-Renaissance paintings of Giotto and Duccio. Gerald Garston distills the randomness and multiplicity of our visual world into its essences, ordering them into deceptively simple paintings that look into its essences, ordering them into deceptively simple paintings that look behind to the ideal within, presenting shapes, structures, and colors intensified and purified, in pleasing and rational coexistence...read more

An overview of the history of tennis includes profiles of the greatest players and information on equipment, officials, rules of the game, tennis lingo, and championship records.

A premier anthology of the outstanding sports writing published during 2000 features the contributions of such distinguished talents as H. G. Bissinger, Charles P. Pierce, Rick Reilly, Jim Harrison, and others on everything from surfing and golf to baseball and bodybuilding. Simultaneous. 50,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

An overview of the history of tennis includes profiles of the greatest players and information on equipment, officials, rules of the game, tennis lingo, and championship records

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Action photographs supplement an overview of the history of tennis, profiles of the sport's greatest players, and information on equipment, officials, tennis terms, and championship records

The man responsible for making tennis an extremely popular television sport recounts his early days of reporting on the game, describes the great matches at Forest Hills, Wimbledon, and smaller courts, and discusses prominent players