The story of the African-American athlete in basketball is one of omission to domination -- at least on the court. Ashe traces this development from the club players of the 1920s to the colleges -- including the achievements of athletes in the traditional black colleges -- and on the professional basketball players of today. The text and reference materials for this book were taken from the three-volume set,A Hard Road to Glory,and combined into this single volume.
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Arthur Ashe was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1943, and died in New York City on February 6, 1993. In his twenty-year tennis career Ashe won some of the most coveted singles championship games; Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and the World Cup Team Finals. He was a member of the U.S. Davis Cup Team from 1963 to 1970, and in 1975, 1976, and 1978; as its captain, he led the team to victories in 1981 and 1982. He was a member of the U.S. World Cup Team from 1970 to 1976, and in 1979.
On April 16, 1980, after quadruple bypass surgury, Arthur Ashe retired from professional tennis. He became National Campaign Chairman for the American Heart Association and the only nonmedical member of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Advisory Council.
He contracted the HIV virus from a blood transfusion after a second bypass operation in 1983. Upon discovering this, Ashe exhibited his perennial quality of action without acrimony and founded the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS, He succumbed to the disease in February 1993.
Ashe was married to professional photographer Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, the author of Viewifnders: Black Women Photographers. They lived in New York City with their daughter, Camera.
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INFORMATIVE,
This review is from: A Hard Road To Glory: A History Of The African American Athlete: Boxing (Paperback)
The book is a historical sketch, informative and useful. A good introduction to the subject matter.
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sadly, a shoddy work,
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This review is from: A Hard Road To Glory: A History Of The African American Athlete: Baseball (Paperback)
Arthur Ashe made many fine contributions to America, but this isn't one of them. Not up to the standard set by the other books in the series.
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The game of basketball had to be invented sooner or later. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
other outstanding athletes, black basketball players, most valuable player, black players, black athletes, varsity teams, first black player, award recipient, black teams Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, New York City, North Carolina, Harlem Globetrotters, Los Angeles, Oscar Robertson, Wilt Chamberlain, Sports Illustrated, Bill Russell, Michael Jordan, Elgin Baylor, Morgan State, Smart Set, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Virginia Union, Big Ten, Basketball Association of America, Boston Celtics, Elvin Hayes, Madison Square Garden, Tennessee State, University of Kansas, Abe Saperstein, Big House, Brooklyn College New!
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The game of basketball had to be invented sooner or later. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
other outstanding athletes, black basketball players, most valuable player, black players, black athletes, varsity teams, first black player, award recipient, black teams Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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