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About Frank Deford
See more books from this AuthorDeford expands upon his recent two-part series in Sports Illustrated with this thoroughly engaging portrait of a sportsman who ""was tennis, body and soul."" A ""Philadelphia patrician of intellectual pretension,"" William T. Tilden II couldn't even make the varsity tennis team at the University ...
Jun 01 1976 | Read Full Review of Big Bill Tilden: The Triumphs...The author ends the book, “I’m often asked if Tilden would be more open about his sexual life were he in his sexual prime today instead of eighty years ago… If anything, in fact, I think Tilden would have a tougher go of it today… (As) for Tilden the tennis player: he would be the same great cham...
May 26 2011 | Read Full Review of Big Bill Tilden: The Triumphs...An aggregated and normalized score based on 7 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes