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Changing the Game : Stories of Tennis Champions Alice Marble and Althea Gibson

Part of the Women Who Dared series
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Written in a lively, readable style, this book profiles two women who broke new ground in tennis.

Alice Marble (1913-1990) became the first woman to play "power tennis", and by 1939 had won several Wimbledon titles.

Althea Gibson (1927- ) broke the racial "color line" in tennis by entering many previously white-only tournaments, and became the first black person to win both the U.S.

Open and Wimbledon competitions.

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Product Details
Seal Press
1878067885 / 9781878067883
Paperback
12/05/1997
United States
180 pages, black & white photographs
140 x 216 mm, 269 grams
General (US: Trade)/Children / Juvenile Learn More