Arthur Ashe, Portrait in Motion

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Houghton Mifflin, 1975 - Sports & Recreation - 272 pages
The diary of a champion tennis player, covering his actions, tournaments, and viewpoints on many subjects, for the period from June, 1973 to July, 1974.

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Contents

The Second Hundred Years Begin
1
It is not the championship of the world
12
Gladiators Troubadours
20
Copyright

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Benjamin Franklin Deford III was born in Baltimore, Maryland on December 16, 1938. He graduated from Princeton University in 1962. He began his career at Sports Illustrated as a researcher. He wrote for Sports Illustrated for more than 30 years, appeared on HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel for 22 years, and gave 1,656 weekly commentaries for NPR's Morning Edition. He was a six-time Sportswriter of the Year, a National Magazine Award recipient, a member of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame, and the first sportswriter to be given a National Humanities Medal. He wrote both fiction and nonfiction books including two memoirs entitled Alex: The Life of a Child and Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter. He died on May 28, 2017 at the age of 78.

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