MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01981cam a2200313 a 4500
001 2007002747
003 DLC
005 20070823083111.0
008 070122s2007 ilua b 001 0deng
010 $a 2007002747
020 $a9781566637145 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a1566637147 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm80180967
035 $a(OCoLC)80180967
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050 00 $aGV992$b.H37 2007
082 00 $a796.3420922$a5$222
100 1 $aHarris, Cecil,$d1960-
245 10 $aCharging the net :$ba history of Blacks in tennis from Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe to the Williams sisters /$cCecil Harris and Larryette Kyle-DeBose ; with a foreword by James Blake and an afterword by Robert Ryland.
260 $aChicago :$bIvan R. Dee,$cc2007.
300 $aviii, 267 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 247-255) and index.
505 0 $aForeword by James Blake -- Introduction -- "There is no African-American culture in tennis" -- "I'm not going to be who you want me to be" -- "I'm not giving anything else away" -- "He was exactly who we needed at the time" -- "We were the only show in town" -- "You tell me what the similarity is" -- "It was as if God handed these two young girls to me" -- "Tennis is a family sport" -- "You niggers gotta get off the court" -- "Nobody called me names on the court, but nobody rooted for me either" -- "You could play the French Open and never really see Paris" -- "It's nice not to have to be a fly in milk" -- "We need you out here" -- Afterword -- Appendix A : ATA singles champions -- Appendix B : world-ranked black tennis players.
650 0 $aTennis$xHistory.
650 0 $aTennis players$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aAfrican American tennis players$xHistory.
700 1 $aKyle-DeBose, Larryette,$d1945-
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip079/2007002747.html