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Catalogs ^[?]

A list of key readings about Tennis.

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The Official Encyclopedia of Tennis of the United States Tennis Association (formerly the United States Lawn Tennis Association), edited by Bill Shannon, Harper & Row, New York, 1981, ISBN 0-06-014896-9

The Tennis Book, edited by Michael Bartlett and Bob Gillen, Arbor House, New York, 1981, ISBN 0-87795-344-9. An anthology of 30 short pieces about various aspects of tennis from various magazines and books.

Total Tennis: The Ultimate Tennis Encyclopedia, edited by Bud Collins, Sport Media Publishing, Toronto, Canada, 2004, ISBN 0-9731443-4-3

The History of Professional Tennis, by Joe McCauley, Short Run Book Company, Windsor, Berkshire, England, 2003, with no ISBN shown. This is a year-by-year account of the professional tours and tournaments between 1926 and 1968, then has 80 additional pages of year-by-year results of as many tournaments, tours, and head-to-head matches as the author, a long-time writer for World Tennis, could find.

The Game, My 40 Years in Tennis, Jack Kramer with Frank Deford, G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1979, ISBN 0-399-12336-9

The Years with Ross, by James Thurber, Little, Brown, 1958, Boston. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 58-11443. A highly regarded biography of the celebrated first editor of The New Yorker, Harold Ross. It has a brief mention of tennis reporting in the magazine.

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 * ''The Game, My 40 Years in Tennis'', Jack Kramer with Frank Deford, G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1979, ISBN 0-399-12336-9
+* ''The Years with Ross'', by James Thurber, Little, Brown, 1958, Boston. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 58-11443. A highly regarded biography of the celebrated first editor of ''The New Yorker'', [[Harold Ross]]. It has a brief mention of tennis reporting in the magazine.
 *''History of the Pro Tennis Wars'', by Ray Bowers, is a Website associated with the '''Tennis Server''' site.  In twelve chapters, Bowers gives a very detailed account of the first sixteen years of professional tennis, from its modest beginnings in 1926 on through 1942.