American Colossus: Big Bill Tilden and the Creation of Modern Tennis

• ... that American Colossus is a biography of a man who was "the most famous sportsman in the world" and "the most forgotten great athlete in American history"? Source: Throughout the decade, Tilden was the most famous sportsman in the world, Simon Briggs, "Brilliant New Biography Underlines Debt Tennis Owes to Big Bill Tilden", The Telegraph, February 23, 2018; and most forgotten great athlete in American history, Allen M. Hornblum as quoted in Dan Wolken, "Tennis Legend Bill Tilden's Controversial History Resurfaces in a Suitcase" USA Today, October 16, 2019.
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Hydrangeans ( she/her | talk | edits) 04:50, 20 May 2024 (UTC).

• Date, size, refs, hook, copyvio spotcheck, QPQ, etc. all fine - GTG. -- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:30, 20 May 2024 (UTC)