Changing the game
Subtitle: the stories of tennis champions Alice Marble and Althea Gibson
By: Sue Davidson.
Series: Women who dared series
Publisher: Seal Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Seattle, Wash
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Marble, Alice, 1913-1990.; Gibson, Althea, 1927-; Women tennis players -- United States -- Biography.
Description: Presents the stories of tennis players Alice Marble and Althea Gibson, telling how Marble rose from a poor background to storm the tennis world with her powerful attacking style, and discussing how Gibson smashed the color barrier to become the first African-American to compete at the U.S. Nationals and Wimbleton.