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1) McEnroe
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Nobody embodied the rockstar era of tennis more than John McEnroe. The original bad boy of the sport, McEnroe was famous not only for his epic matches, but also for his confrontations on and off the court. Accompanied by interviews with icons like Patty Smyth, Keith Richards, Billie Jean King, and Bjorn Borg, the legendary tennis ace gives an unflinching account of his triumphs, struggles, friendships, and rivalries.
2) Althea
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Althea Gibson emerged as a most unlikely queen of the highly segregated tennis world of the 1950s. Her roots as a sharecropper's daughter, her family's migration to Harlem, her mentoring from Sugar Ray Robinson, David Dinkins and others, and her fame that thrust her unwillingly into the glare of the early Civil Rights movement, all bring the story into a much broader realm of African American history, transcending sports.
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