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American Female Tennis Players: Rosemary Casals, Tracy Austin, Jill Craybas, Nicole Arendt, Mary Carillo, Audra Cohen, Anne White |
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English |
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Paperback |
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110 |
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2010-09-15 |
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1155660935 |
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Books LLC |
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0.38 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.24 inches |
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Chapters: Rosemary Casals, Tracy Austin, Jill Craybas, Nicole Arendt, Mary Carillo, Audra Cohen, Anne White, Carole Caldwell Graebner, Beverly Baker Fleitz, Lea Antonoplis, Lilia Osterloh, Carolin Babcock, Susan Mascarin, Katrina Adams, Lois Felix, Roberta Alison, Megan Moulton-Levy, Leslie Allen, Lauren Albanese, Courtney Nagle, Angela Haynes, Juliette Atkinson, Beatrice Capra, Kristie Ahn, Heather Ludloff, Carol Hanks Aucamp, Tara Snyder, Mary Arnold, Robin Stephenson, Martha Guthrie, Sandra Cacic, Julie Anthony. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 108. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Rosemary "Rosie" Casals (born September 16, 1948) is a former American professional tennis player. "The other kids had nice tennis clothes, nice rackets, nice white shoes, and came in Cadillacs. I felt stigmatized because we were poor." Introduction Rosemary Casals earned her reputation as a rebel in the staid tennis world when she began competing in the early 1960s. During a tennis career that spanned more than two decades, she won more than 90 tournaments and worked for the betterment of women's tennis. She was a motivating force behind many of the changes that shook the tennis world during the 1960s and 1970s. Many of these changes helped make tennis the popular sport that it is today. Casals was born in 1948 in San Francisco, California, to poor parents who had immigrated to the United States from the Central American country of El Salvador. Less than a year after Casals was born, her parents decided they could not care for her and her older sister Victoria. Casals's great-uncle and great-aunt, Manuel and Maria Casals, then took the young girls in and raised them as their own. When the children grew older, Manuel Casals took them to the public tennis courts of San Francisco and taught them how to...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2151564
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