E. Digby Baltzell

Sporting Gentlemen (eBook, ePUB)

Men's Tennis from the Age of Honor to the Cult of the Superstar

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Tennis is a high-stakes game, played by prodigies identified early and coached by professionals in hopes of high rankings and endorsements

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 441
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351488341
• Artikelnr.: 48866980

Autorenporträt

E. Digby Baltzell

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction: Leveling Upwards and Leveling Downwards; 2: The
Anglo-American Amateur Tradition, the Making of a National Upper Class, and
a Gentlemanly Code of Honor in America, 1880-1914; 3: The Rise of Lawn
Tennis: The Harrow and Harvard Era, 1877-1887; 4: The Expansion ofLawn
Tennis in an Age oflnnocence, 1887-1912; 5: Class Complacency Challenged in
1912: The Sinking of the Titanic and the First California Invasion of the
Eastern Grass Court Circuit; 6: The Old Order Changes: Amateurism becomes
an Issue the Davis Cup Goes Down Under in 1914, and the Championships Are
Moved from Newport to Forest Hills; 7: Two Philadelphia Gentlemen: William
J. Clothier, Father and Son; 8: Racism and Anti-Semitism: The Gentleman s
Achilles Heel; 9: William Tatum Tilden II: A Philadelphia Gentleman as
World Champion; 10: The Finest Five Years in Tennis History: The French
Musketeers Finally Topple Tilden; 11: Big Bill Tilden: A Gentleman
Possessed by Genius; 12: The Grass Court Circuit Becomes a Melting Pot, and
Perry Jones Leads a Second California Invasion of the Eastern
Establishment; 13: Gentleman Jack Crawford of Australia and Fred Perry, the
Last Great Englishman; 14: Budge and the Baron: The Greatest Match of Them
All and the First Grand Slam; 15: Indian Summer of a Golden Age: Riggs,
Kramer, Gonzales, and the Pro Tour; 16: Lean Years in American Tennis and
the Reign of Harry Hopman s Australians; 17: The Great Revolution,
1968-1992: The Rise of Open (Pro) Tennis and the Decline of Civility;
Epilogue