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A practical manual on palm reading, which discusses the significant physical aspects of each part of the hand and shows how to build, step-by-step, a psychological profile of the subject. ... Read more

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"I Remember Pete Maravich" is a beautiful hardcover bookthat details the professional career and personal example of "PistolPete" Maravich. His amazing record and ball-handling tricks are justsome of the stories recounted here by some of Maravich's closestacquaintances, including his friends, fellow basketball players,coaches, and relatives. ... Read more

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Wonderful reading!
Pistol Pete was my childhood hero and this book tells me an awful lot about him from people who knew him during different parts of his life. It's people talking about Pete in their own words and the stories and memories are rich and interesting. I especially like the Christian angle to the book, telling of Pete's conversion to Christianity and his evangelical work. Most of the stuff I've read on Maravich downplay that stuff, but I think it as important as anything else he ever accomplished. Nice bookfor sure.

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This biik is an oral history of Pete Maravich, the player and the person.It recounts the memories of various people who knew Pete as the Pistol and as just plain Pete.It gives a balanced view of his past and is especially interesting in recounting Pete's later days and his conversion to Christianity.A good read for people who may have read Pete's biography but want to see him through others eyes. ... Read more

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A biography of the black tennis champion who won the men's singles title at Wimbledon in 1975. ... Read more

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With every powerful serve and deft ground stroke, with every graceful volley and determined charge to the net, black tennis players, from Hall of Famers Althea Gibson, Arthur Ashe, Evonne Goolagong, and Yannick Noah to future legends James Blake and the sisters Venus and Serena Williams, have forced open the sport's shuttered gates and demanded to be acknowledged. In Charging the Net, Cecil Harris and Larryette Kyle-DeBose draw on personal interviews and extensive research to chronicle the triumphs-and humiliations-of blacks in professional tennis from the 1940s to the present. For many fans and writers, Ashe, Gibson, and the Williams sisters personify black achievement in tennis, but others have made their mark. Charging the Net spotlights a wide range of competitors as well as the American Tennis Association, an organization that thrived despite racial segregation, thanks to such benefactors as Dr. R. Walter Johnson. The book will also introduce readers to two black officials whose success was short-lived; both have sued the United States Tennis Association, alleging discrimination based on race, gender, and age. Harlem-trained, Harvard-educated James Blake, who overcame career-threatening injuries to achieve World Top Ten status, has written a foreword to Charging the Net. The afterword is written by Robert Ryland, the first black to compete in a major college tournament, who later found the doors to tennis's premier venues marked Whites Only. With a clear vision, Ryland, the eighty-six-year-old coach, now looks at how far blacks in tennis have come and how far they have yet to travel. ... Read more

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incredible book
congradulations to the Williams sisters winning at WImbledon together and for them battling against one another for the championship.this Book is a Must read for the tennis fan in general and also from a basic rights and understanding of the history of Blacks in tennis. this book is very in depth and is a note for note line for line read. very informative. a must have.

Charging The Net
I found it a very informative and wonderful book to read.I really learned a lot about the history of Black tennis pros.I would definetely recommend for everyone to read this book.

Its lively presentation blends civil rights issues with tennis sports world insights.
CHARGING THE NET: A HISTORY OF BLACKS IN TENNIS provides a fine survey of the major black figures in tennis who forced the sport to integrate. Personal interviews and in-depth research details the challenges blacks faced in entering professional status in the tennis world, with chapters surveying the achievements of individuals, teams, and organizations alike. This is a top pick not just for sports libraries, but for any general-interest collection strong in integration issues and sports. Its lively presentation blends civil rights issues with tennis sports world insights. ... Read more

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A biography of tennis champion Arthur Ashe, covering his personal life and his sports career, as well as his struggles with racism and AIDS. ... Read more

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A Person worth reading about
This is one wonderful book. Before I read Breaking the Color Barrier in Tennis, David k. Wright, I have to be honest, I had never heard of Arthur Ashe. It such a shame that there are thousands of people out there, justlike me, who never heard of such famous and extraordinary people. Instead,we know about all the negative parts of life, such as drugs and how to usethem. They should pick up this book and maybe they will learn somethingfrom it. This was a great short book on an amazing man.I hate it when youstart reading a book and it is so hard to understand because the authoruses confusing words. It seems like you're reading a foreign language. Butthis book was easy to read and understand. In such a small number of pages,the author writes exactly about whom Arthur Ashe was and what he was about.Even though discrimination towards black people was still going strongduring his time, it didn't stop this great black tennis legend from hisgreat accomplishments. And even when he knew that all those accomplishmentswhere going to disappear, due to his diagnose of the AIDS virus from ablood transfusion, he still fought strong and tried to make the best of hislast days. ... Read more

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A Wimbledon champion instructs beginning players in the mechanics, rules, strategy, and etiquette of tennis. ... Read more

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Chapters: Arthur Ashe, Johnny Sample, K. J. Hippensteel. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. (July 10, 1943 February 6, 1993) was a professional tennis player, born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. During his career, he won three Grand Slam titles, putting him among the best ever from the U.S. Ashe, an African American, is also remembered for his efforts to further social causes. Ashe was coached by Ronald Charity, and later coached by Robert Walter Johnson. Tired of having to travel great distances to play Caucasian youths in segregated Richmond, Ashe accepted an offer from a St. Louis tennis official to move there and attend Sumner High School. Young Ashe was recognized by Sports Illustrated for his playing. Ashe was awarded a tennis scholarship to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1963. That same year, Ashe became the first black player ever selected to the United States Davis Cup team. In 1965, Ashe won the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) singles title and contributed to UCLA's winning the team NCAA tennis championship. While at UCLA, Ashe was initiated as a member of the Upsilon chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. The Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center, on the campus of UCLAIn 1968, Ashe won the United States Amateur Championships and the inaugural US Open and aided the U.S Davis Cup team to victory. He is the only player to have won both of these amateur and open national championships in the same year. Concerned that tennis professionals were not receiving winnings commensurate with the sport's growing popularity, Ashe supported formation of the Association of Tennis Professionals. That year would prove even more momentous for Ashe when he was denied a visa by the Sout...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=320157 ... Read more

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Chapters: Ucla Bruins Tennis Players, Jimmy Connors, Arthur Ashe, Justin Gimelstob, Brian Teacher, Eliot Teltscher, Haroon Rahim, Zack Fleishman, Allen Fox, J.d. Morgan, Herbert Flam, Los Angeles Tennis Center, Billy Martin, Glenn Bassett, Brian Garrow, Robert Bédard, Steve Krulevitz, Anita Kanter, Heather Ludloff, Mike Franks, John Austin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 104. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: James Scott "Jimmy" Connors (born September 2, 1952, in East St. Louis, Illinois, also known as "Jimbo") is an American former World No. 1 tennis player and is considered to be one of the greatest tennis players of all time. He held the top ranking for 160 consecutive weeks from July 29, 1974, to August 29, 1977, and an additional eight times during his career (a total of 268 weeks). He won eight Grand Slam singles titles and two Grand Slam doubles titles with Ilie Nstase and was the mixed doubles runner-up with Chris Evert at the 1974 US Open. He is a former coach of Andy Roddick, the winner of the 2003 US Open. Although Connors never won the French Open, his victory at the 1976 US Open came during the brief period (197577) when that tournament was held on clay courts. Connors is, therefore, one of only five men (Mats Wilander, Andre Agassi, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are the others) to have won a Grand Slam singles title on grass courts, hard courts, and clay courts. Connors also won the U.S. Open singles championship itself on grass courts, hard courts, and clay courts, the only man to accomplish that trio of wins. In 1970, Connors played his first international matches and recorded his first significant victory in the first round of the Pacific Southwest Open in Los Angeles, defeating Roy Emerson. In 1971, Connors won the NCAA singles title while attending the Univers...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=191314 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jimmy Connors, Arthur Ashe, Justin Gimelstob, Brian Teacher, Eliot Teltscher, Haroon Rahim, Zack Fleishman, Allen Fox, J.d. Morgan, Herbert Flam, Billy Martin, Glenn Bassett, Brian Garrow, Robert Bédard, Steve Krulevitz, Anita Kanter, Heather Ludloff, Mike Franks, John Austin. Excerpt:Dr. Allen E. Fox (born June 25, 1939, in Los Angeles, California ) is a former tennis player in the 1960s and 1970s who went on to be a college coach and author. He was ranked as high as # 4 in the U.S. (in 1962). Between 1961 and 1968, he ranked among the top 10 men in the U.S. five times. Tennis career In 1960, he teamed up with Larry Nagler to capture the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) doubles title for the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA ). In 1961, as team captain, Fox won the NCAA singles title. During his college career, Fox lost only two dual matches. "One was to Rafael Osuna and the other was to Chuck McKinley ," he said. He was a three-time All-American , (1959 61), and also earned All-UCLA and All-University of California Athlete of the Year honors, which are presented to the Best Scholar-Athlete. Fox helped lead UCLA to NCAA team championships in 1960 and 1961. He was one of Arthur Ashe's closest friends during Ashe's freshman year, when Fox was a senior. As Ashe put it, "In those days, to be Jewish in the top ranks of tennis was to encounter a certain amount of prejudice." Fox graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in physics and a Ph.D. in psychology. Upon graduation, Fox was the 4th-ranked singles player in the United States. He also won the singles title at Cincinnati in 1961. In 1962, he reached the singles final in Cincinnati, falling to Marty Riessen . In 1965 he reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon . He won the Canadian Nationals in 1966. Fox also wo... ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd ed., brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 893 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the regions of the American continents in which two of the world's first civilizations developed: Mesoamerica (the name for the lands in which ancient civilizations arose in Central America and Mexico) and the Andes Mountains region of South America (in present-day Peru and parts of Bolivia, northern Argentina, and Ecuador). In both regions, the history of civilization goes back thousands of years. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd ed., brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 867 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the regions of the American continents in which two of the world's first civilizations developed: Mesoamerica (the name for the lands in which ancient civilizations arose in Central America and Mexico) and the Andes Mountains region of South America (in present-day Peru and parts of Bolivia, northern Argentina, and Ecuador). In both regions, the history of civilization goes back thousands of years. ... Read more

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The Davis Cup Champions show you how to get more from your game. ... Read more