Tennis racket belonging to sports announcer Bud Collins
name: label: maker
content: Prince Sports Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Tennis racket belonged to Bud Collins. The racket has a bright pink taped handle, a black and red frame, and a yellow racket face with a black number 4 painted on. The racket is a Prince brand O3 Hybrid Hornet. Bud Collins was a boxing and tennis announcer and journalist, first for the Boston Globe and then as an analyst for CBS and NBC. Collins was one of the first sports journalists to transition to television and brought national fame and attention to tennis and boxing with his writing and announcing, even chronicling the early years of Muhammad Ali. Collins also worked for ESPN in the 2000s, and wrote "The Bud Collins History of Tennis" about the sport. Collins found athletic success himself in the 1960s and 1970s as a doubles tennis player; he also coached tennis at Brandeis University. Collins was known for his warm personality, his passion for the game, and his brightly patterned pants, shirts, and ties. He is a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame and a recipient of the Red Smith Award, the highest honor for an American sports writer.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0140.02
label: accession number
content: 2019.0140
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0140.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tennis racket
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic/composite (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: nylon (strings material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27 3/32 in x 11 5/16 in x 1 11/16 in; 68.834 cm x 28.702 cm x 4.318 cm