(Download pdf) Courts of Babylon: Tales of Greed and Glory in The Harsh New World of Professional Tennis
☆ Peter Bodo ☆
| #1454236 in Books | Scribner | 1995-06-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x6.50 x1.50l, | File Name: 0684812967 | 480 pages |
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| The forgotten world of 1970's tennis|By Bryan|It is hard to remember just what a freak show professional tennis was in the 1970's and into the 80's. The original bad boy of tennis - Ilie Nastase would spit at his opponents. A former man wanted to play as a woman. Jimmy Conners firing tennis balls next to lines people he disagreed with.
And this book documents it a|From Publishers Weekly|Tennis was the last major sport to abandon the British ideal of the gentleman amateur, which it did with the advent of so-called open tennis in 1968. The results of that seismic change are detailed in this chronicle by reporter-analyst Bo
A true insider's book, this sly, irreverent expose of the personalities, politics, intrigue, and innuendo surrounding the greed-and-ego fueled world of pro tennis leaves no player untouched, from John McEnroe and Steffi Graf to Jimmy Connors, Andre Agassi, and Martina Navratilova. Photos.
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