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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 autobiography of the great player and long-time promoter.

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.

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.

The Years with Ross, by James Thurber, Little, Brown, 1958, Boston. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 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.

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 still at the 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.

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 * ''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.
-* ''Tennis Is My Racket'', by Bobby Riggs, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1949, an apparently ghost-written autobiography. No ISBN or Catalog Card Number. An autobiography of the great mid-century player and well-known hustler who later played [[Billie Jean King]] in the ''[[Battle of the Sexes]]''.
+* ''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]]''.
 * ''The Years with Ross'', by James Thurber, Little, Brown, 1958, Boston. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 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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 * ''World of Tennis Yearbook 1971'' (1971), by John Barrett, London
 *''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.