AS TOM GOES BY

by Tom Brown, Lee Tyler

Tom Brown is one of the few serious tennis players left from the immediate post WWII era. Now in his mid-eighties, he is blessed with a clear and detailed memory, as well a droll story-telling style, as well as a collaborater, Lee Tyler, who is a professional sprotswriter. After a stint in the Army during WWII, he balanced a rapidly rising tenni career with law studies and a law practice. He was a winner at Wimbledon at age 23, winning both the Mens and Mixed Doubles Championships in 1946. He continued to play and compete as a young man, then returned to the game in the 1980s to become a pre-eminent senior player of the USA inhis age bracket. Ful of tennis celebrity name-dropping, tells of a tennis polayer and charming man.

Paperback

First published March 1, 2007

About the author

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Thomas P. "Tom" Brown, Jr. (September 26, 1922, Washington, D.C. – October 27, 2011, Castro Valley, California), was one of the top amateur tennis players in the world in the 1940s and a consistent winner in veterans' and seniors' competitions. He was the son of Thomas P. Brown, a newspaper correspondent, later public relations director for a railroad, and Hilda Jane Fisher, who became a schoolteacher when Tom was a boy. Though born in Washington, D.C., Tom was considered a San Franciscan all his life, having been brought west by his parents (both native Californians) at the age of two.


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Tom Brown (tennis). (2014, February 1). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16:24, November 25, 2014, from http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Brown_(tennis).