Tenniss Most Wanted

Author : Floyd Conner
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612340458
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tennis's Most Wanted written by Floyd Conner and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2002-06-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tennis history is filled with unusual, bizarre, and unbelievable stories. Tennis's Most Wanted chronicles 700 of the most outrageous players, coaches, and officials in tennis history. Its seventy lists describe in detail tennis's colorful characters, surprising matches, inept players, bizarre nicknames, outrageous outfits, embarrassing losses, errant shots, terrible tantrums, and more. Only here will you learn that Joshua Pim won Wimbledon in 1893 and 1894 under an assumed name because he was afraid that being a tennis player would hurt his medical practice. Frank Riesley and Sydney Sm.

Author : Floyd Conner
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597973971
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Olympic's Most Wanted written by Floyd Conner and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2001-10-31 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into amusing Olympic moments both high and low

Author : Scarlett Thomas
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640094776
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 41-Love written by Scarlett Thomas and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A darkly funny sports memoir about a mid-life crisis, exercise addiction, tennis, and how to grow up when you really, really don't want to At forty-one, Scarlett Thomas was a successful novelist and a senior academic. She’d quit smoking, gotten healthier, settled down in a lovely house with a wonderful partner. She’d had all the therapy. Then her beloved dog died. Her parents started to get sick right around the time she realized she was never going to be a mother herself. For the first time in her life, maintaining her ideal weight had become nearly impossible. She was supposed to grow up, but she didn’t know how. So instead she decided to regress, to go back to the thing she’d loved best as a child but had inexplicably abandoned: tennis. Thomas knows she’s not the only person to have wondered whether throwing enough money and time and passion at something can make your dream come true. 41–Love is heartbreaking but frequently funny as Thomas finds she’ll do anything to win—almost anything.

Author : Floyd Conner
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612340377
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baseball's Most Wanted™ II written by Floyd Conner and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2003-03-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball has so many stars and scrubs, quotables and notables - so many that one book just isn’t enough to cover them all. Enter Baseball's Most Wanted™ II. Starting where Baseball's Most Wanted™ left off, version 2.0 introduces even more colorful characters, inept fielders and hitters, and forgotten stars as well as all the teams, fans, managers, and even announcers who are a vibrant part of baseball’s past, present, and future. You’ll read top-ten lists of the best and worst hitters and pitchers, the most unique memorabilia, and the most obsessed fans. Learn which president vowed to never play the game again after he got shelled in a semipro game. Find out if Tony Suck lived up to his name or rose above it. Discover the secret lure of the no-hitter and how even usually inept pitchers can catch lightning in a bottle and reach Nirvana. You’ll read about these as well as hundreds of other people, places, and events. With more than sixty lists of trivia to amuse and amaze, Baseball's Most Wanted™ II is a wonderful celebration of America’s love of baseball, warts and all.

Author : Thomas J. Foley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451663935
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Most Wanted written by Thomas J. Foley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting, event-by-event account of former head of Massachusetts State Police Foley's 20-year pursuit of murderous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger--and of Foley's key role in exposing the FBI's terrible corruptive protection of Bulger's criminal empire.

Author : Billie Jean King
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1101947349
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All In written by Billie Jean King and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant tennis career, unwavering activism, and an ongoing commitment to fairness and social justice. “A story about the personal strength, immense growth, and undeniable greatness of one woman who fearlessly stood up to a culture trying to break her down.”—Serena Williams In this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life's journey to find her true self. She recounts her groundbreaking tennis career—six years as the top-ranked woman in the world, twenty Wimbledon championships, thirty-nine grand-slam titles, and her watershed defeat of Bobby Riggs in the famous "Battle of the Sexes." She poignantly recalls the cultural backdrop of those years and the profound impact on her worldview from the women's movement, the assassinations and anti-war protests of the 1960s, the civil rights movement, and, eventually, the LGBTQ+ rights movement. She describes the myriad challenges she's hurdled—entrenched sexism, an eating disorder, near financial peril after being outed—on her path to publicly and unequivocally acknowledging her sexual identity at the age of fifty-one. She talks about how her life today remains one of indefatigable service. She offers insights and advice on leadership, business, activism, sports, politics, marriage equality, parenting, sexuality, and love. And she shows how living honestly and openly has had a transformative effect on her relationships and happiness. Hers is the story of a pathbreaking feminist, a world-class athlete, and an indomitable spirit whose impact has transcended even her spectacular achievements in sports.

Author : Simon Ramo
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780517529874
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extraordinary Tennis for the Ordinary Player written by Simon Ramo and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1977 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sasha Abramsky
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617758264
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Wonder written by Sasha Abramsky and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Masterfully captures the life of this little-known sportswoman, a versatile female athlete comparable to Babe Didrikson Zaharias.” —Booklist (starred review) Lottie Dod was a truly extraordinary sports figure who blazed trails of glory in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dod won Wimbledon five times, and did so for the first time in 1887, at the ludicrously young age of fifteen. After she grew bored with competitive tennis, she moved on to and excelled in myriad other sports: she became a leading ice skater and tobogganist, a mountaineer, an endurance bicyclist, a hockey player, a British ladies’ golf champion, and an Olympic silver medalist in archery. In her time, Dod had a huge following, but her years of distinction occurred just before the rise of broadcast media. By the outset of World War I, she was largely a forgotten figure; she died alone and without fanfare in 1960. Little Wonder brings this remarkable woman’s story to life, contextualizing it against a backdrop of rapid social change and tectonic shifts in the status of women in society. Paving the way for the likes of Billie Jean King, Serena Williams, and other top female athletes of today, Dod accepted no limits, no glass ceilings, and always refused to compromise. “Eighty-five years before Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs fought the ‘battle of the sexes,’ a Victorian teenager showed what women could do . . . [Abramsky] celebrates her as a brave and talented and determined original.” —The Atlantic

Author : Francis Gordon Lowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lawn Tennis Guide written by Francis Gordon Lowe and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Cronin
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1118015959
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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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.