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Bill Tilden

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Books

Baltzell, E. Digby. Sporting Gentlemen: Men's Tennis from the Age of Honor to the Cult of the Superstar. New York: Free Press, 1995.

Bartlett, Michael and Bob Gillen, editors. The Tennis Book. New York: Arbor House, 1981.

Christopher, Andre. Top Ten Men's Tennis Players. Hillside, NJ: Enslow, 1998.

Collins, Bud and Zander Hollander, editors. Bud Collins' Modern Encyclopedia of Tennis. Detroit: Gale, 1994.

Cummings, Parke. American Tennis: The Story of a Game and Its People. Boston: Little, Brown, 1957.

Danzig, Allison and Peter Schwed, editors. The Fireside Book of Tennis. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972.

Deford, Frank. Big Bill Tilden: The Triumph and the Tragedies. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1976.

Flink, Steve. The Greatest Tennis Matches of the Twentieth Century. Danbury, CT: Rutledge Books, 1999.

Garraty, John A. and Mark C. Carnes. American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Phillips, Caryl, editor. The Right Set: A Tennis Anthology. New York: Vintage Books, 1999.

Vecchione, Joseph J. The New York Times Book of Sports Legends. New York: Times Books, 1991.

Periodicals

Deford, Frank. "Hero with a Tragic Flaw." Sports Illustrated (January 13, 1975): 51.

Deford, Frank, "Hero with a Tragic Flaw: Part 2." Sports Illustrated (January 20, 1975): 31.

Heldman, Julius D. "Styles of the Great, Bill Tilden." World Tennis (April, 1980): 12-14.

Obituary. New York Times (June 6, 1953).

Parrish, K. "The Champ and the Tramp." World Tennis (February, 1990): 96.

Other

"Bill Johnston, Class of 1958." International Tennis Hall of Fame. http://www.tennisfame.org/ (September 22, 2002).

"Bill Tilden, Class of 1959." International Tennis Hall of Fame. http://www.tennisfame.org/ (September 17, 2002).

Additional topics

Famous Sports StarsTennisBill Tilden Biography - Born Into Privilege, Chronology, A Self-taught Genius, Awards And Accomplishments, The Tilden Age