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BOOKS Courting Change: The Life of Tennis Legend Althea Gibson

Born to Win: The Aythorized Biography of Althea Gibson By Frances clayton Gray and Yanick Rice Lamb (Wiley, $24.95)

The Match: Althea Gibson & Angela Buxton, How Two Outsiders - One Black, the Other Jewish - Forged a Friendship and Made Sports History By Bruce Schoenfeld (Amistad, $24.95)

Before Venus and Serena Williams, before Arthur Ashe and Zina Garrison, there was Althea Gibson.

Tennis fans who don't remember her heyday may be familiar with Gibson from veteran tennis announcer Bud Collins's "flashback moments" - five-second clips of Wimbledon championship matches. It's obvious from the grainy blackand-white images that ...

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