Tennis/Bibliography

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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

• 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.

• World of Tennis Yearbook 1971, by John Barrett, London, 1971. Apparently an annual yearbook about tennis.

• Rich Hillway, a tennis historian, who interviewed various famous old-time players in 2005 at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island. The complete interviews can be found at [1]

• 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.
  • Chapter I: Suzanne Lenglen and the First Pro Tour
  • Chapter II, Part 1: The eminence of Karel Kozeluh and Vincent Richards 1927-1928
  • Chapter II, Part 2: Deja vu 1929-1930
  • Chapter III: Tilden's Year of Triumph in 1931
  • Chapter IV: Tilden and Nusslein, 1932-1933
  • Chapter V: The Early Ascendancy of Vines, 1934
  • Chapter VI: Vines's Second Year: 1935
  • Chapter VII: Awaiting Perry, 1936
  • Chapter VIII: Perry and Vines, 1937
  • Chapter IX: Readying for Budge, 1938
  • Chapter X: Budge's Great Pro Year, 1939
  • Chapter XI: America, 1940-1941
  • Chapter XII: America, 1942

• 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.

• The Years with Ross, by James Thurber, Little, Brown, 1958, Boston. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 58-11443. A highly regarded biography of Harold Ross, the eccentric and celebrated first editor of The New Yorker magazine. It has a brief mention of tennis reporting in the early years of the magazine.

• Man with a Racket, The Autobiography of Pancho Gonzales, as Told to Cy Rice, A. S. Barnes and Company, New York, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 59-7068 1959. An autography by a great player written at the very height of his game.

• The Lone Wolf, by S. L. Price, Sports Illustrated, 26 June 2002. A hard-hitting but affectionate article about Pancho Gonzales some years after his death.

• 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 autobiography of the great player and long-time promoter, frank and informative.

• Tennis Is My Racket, by Bobby Riggs, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1949, no ISBN or Catalog Card Number. An apparently ghost-written autobiography of the great mid-century player and well-known hustler who in 1973 played Billie Jean King in the famous Battle of the Sexes.

• Court Hustler, by Bobby Riggs, 1973, Lippincott, Philadelphia. A second ghost-written autobiography of Riggs, published after his famous match with Billie Jean King.

• "The 18-Hole Hustle," by Tom LeCompte, American Heritage Magazine, August/September 2005, Volume 56, Issue 4. An article about golf and tennis hustling and in general, but mostly relating antedotes about Bobby Riggs.

• Big Bill Tilden, The Triumphs and the Tragedy, by Frank DeFord, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1976, ISBN 0-671-22254-6. A biographer of the greatest of the early players.