Table of Contents
Introduction i
1 Who am I? 1
2 Early Years 3
3 The Wimbledon Final that Never was… 20
4 The Private Understanding Playoff 35
5 From Wimbledon to Wall Street 41
6 My Favorite Match 45
7 Doing Laundry with Don Budge and Arnold Palmer 48
8 Dave Selznick 51
9 Shooting It Up with Gary Cooper 53
10 The other Errol 56
11 Scarecrow Server 59
12 Near Immortality at Grauman's Chinese Theatre 60
13 Charlie Chaplin in Wonderland 62
14 Replay with Fay Wray 65
15 Groucho Gets Bagged 67
16 J. Donald Budge 69
17 Roof top Tennis in Manhattan the Founding of Town Tennis Club 71
18 The Full Count 73
19 Days of Grace 78
20 The Case of Althea Gibson 83
21 Tennis with Bobby Fischer 85
22 The Shah and I 89
23 The First us Open Box Seats 93
24 Supreme Court 95
25 Once I was Gross at Roland Garros 97
26 Frequent Flier 101
27 Near Miss 104
28 Deputy Wood 105
29 The Hotfoot 109
30 Nuts to You, Mrs. Astor 110
31 Practice Imperfect 112
32 The "Double-Hit" that Cost Jean Borotra the 1927 Wimbledon Title 114
33 Henri Cochet - The French Connection 117
34 Foot Faults…Before and After 120
35 French Frustrations 122
36 Mark Mccormack - The Ultimate Sports Mogul 125
37 Adrenaline 129
38 Analyzing the Greatest Players of All Time 134
39 The Greatest Strokes and Skill Sets of All Time 147
40 Friendships for a Lifetime 173
Epilogue 177
