Tennis's Most Wanted
Author | : Floyd Conner |
Publisher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2002-06-30 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781612340456 |
ISBN-10 | : 1612340458 |
Rating | : 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
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.