Althea : the life of tennis champion Althea Gibson
Jacobs, Sally H., 1957-2023
Book
Total copies: 1
In 1950, three years after Jackie Robinson first walked onto the diamond at Ebbets Field, the lily white, upper-crust National Lawn Tennis Association opened its door just a crack to receive the powerhouse player who would integrate 'the game of kings': Althea Gibson. A street-savvy young woman from Harlem, Gibson was about as alien in that rarefied white world as an aspiring tennis champion could be. In her tattered jeans and short-cropped hair, Gibson drew stares from both sides of the colour fence. But her astonishing skill on the court soon eclipsed all of that, as she eventually became one of the greatest tennis champions the United States has ever produced.
Main title:
Althea : the life of tennis champion Althea Gibson / Sally H. Jacobs.
Author:
Jacobs, Sally H., 1957-, author
Imprint:
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2023.
Collation:
464 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781250246554 (hbk)
Dewey class:
796.342092B
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
684310