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Kay Stammers, Alice Marble, and JFK

"Kay Stammers," artwork by Giada llenia Pinna

Check out my latest book, Tennis Players as Works of Art, now available on Amazon. Called “madly ambitious” and named one its 5 featured books of 2024 in the category of Art/Imagination/Creativity by Publisher’s Weekly Booklife, Tennis Players as Works of Art has also been named “One of the Best Books we Read in 2024” […]

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Bobby Riggs on his Death Bed

© Mort Drucker, “Bobby Riggs” portrait used for the cover of Time Magazine From the National Portrait Gallery

1945: The Enola Gay took off for Hiroshima.  Don Budge and I, the world’s two best players, played a few miles away. A little action. Entertaining the troops. Army (Budge) vs. Navy (Riggs), that’s the way it is boys. Bets? Bets? I was just a pesky hustler, but I finally figured him out. He got […]

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