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Sporting Gentlemen - Men's Tennis from the Age of Honor to the Cult of the Superstar (Paperback)
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Sporting Gentlemen - Men's Tennis from the Age of Honor to the Cult of the Superstar (Paperback)
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Tennis is a high-stakes game, played by prodigies identified early
and coached by professionals in hopes of high rankings and
endorsements. This commercial world is far removed from the origins
of the sport. Before 1968-when Wimbledon invited professional
players to compete for the first time-tennis was part of a
sportsmanship tradition that emphasized character over money. It
produced well-rounded gentlemen who expressed a code of honor, not
commerce. In this authoritative and affectionate history of men's
tennis, distinguished sociologist E. Digby Baltzell recovers the
glory of the age. From its aristocratic origins in the late
ninteenth century, to the Tilden years, and through a succession of
newcomers, the amateur era and its virtues survived a century of
democratization and conflict. Sporting Gentlemen examines the
greatest players and matches in the history of tennis. Baltzell
explores the tennis code of honor and its roots in the cricket code
of the late-nineteenth-century Anglo-American upper class. This
code of honor remained in spite of the later democratization of
tennis. Thus, the court manners of the Renshaw twins and Doherty
brothers at the Old Wimbledon were upheld to the letter by Don
Budge and Jack Kramer as well as Rod Laver, John Newcombe, and
Arthur Ashe. Baltzell's final chapter on the Open Era is a
blistering attack on the decline of honor and the obliteration of
class distinctions, leaving only those based on money. For all who
love the game of tennis, Sporting Gentlemen is both fascinating
history and a badly needed analysis of what has made the sport
great.
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