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The definitive biography of American tennis legend Pancho Gonzales, whose historic back-to-back U.S. National Championships in 1948 and 1949 shattered barriers in a predominantly white sport before he went on to reign as the world's top professional player for much of the following decade.
That thunderbolt of a serve. That chip on his shoulder the size of the sport itself. A fiery, misunderstood genius. . . Pancho Gonzales may have been the greatest tennis player of all time, rising from the hard-scrabble streets of a Los Angeles immigrant barrio to rule the tennis world in an era that wasn't ready for a working-class Mexican American champion.
In Pancho: The Triumph and Tragedy of Tennis Legend Pancho Gonzales, veteran journalist and historian Tony Castro offers a deeply personal, culturally resonant portrait of one of the most complicated figures in sports history. Gonzales was not only an athletic icon but a symbol of something larger: the fierce, often invisible war waged by Latinos to claim their place in the American dream. Castro details Pancho's youth growing up in a segregated Los Angeles where he was barred from most tennis courts because of the color of his skin and the sound of his name. With no coaching, no formal training, and no country club pedigree, he became world champion. Then he did it again. And again. And again--for eight years straight.
Pancho goes beyond the trophies and tantrums to explore the man behind the myth. Through dozens of interviews with Pancho, Castro investigates the cycles of rage and alienation that followed Gonzales throughout his life and examines his legacy--as a pathbreaker, a Chicano icon before the term existed, and a painful reminder of what happens when greatness collides with a country that insists on respectability over revolution.
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Table of Contents
PRELUDE: THE IMPOSSIBLE SCOREBOARD
PROLOGUE: 'AN ANARCHY OF POSSIBILITIES'
1: THE BASELINE & THE BORDERLINE
2: THE CITY OF BROKEN PROMISES
3: THE MARBLE KING
4: THE BOY THEY CALLED PANCHO
5: THE SCAR AND THE SPOTLIGHT
6: A BOY AGAINST THE WORLD
7: THE YEAR THEY TRIED TO LOSE HIM
8: BAD CONDUCT
9: THE GATEKEEPER
10: THE WARNING YEAR: 1947
11: LOVE, WAR & OTHER GAMES
12: OPERATION GONZALES
13: THE EVEREST HE HADN'T CLIMBED
14: TRIUMPH AT FOREST HILLS
15: IRON MAN IN THE MIRROR
16: BETWEEN CROWNS
17: THE COST OF GLORY
18: THE LONG WAY BACK
19: DAVIS CUP
20: BACK AT FOREST HILLS AGAIN
21: AFTER THE CROWN
22: FORGED IN THE PRO GAME
23: AN EARLY RETIREMENT
24: ACCORDING TO JACK KRAMER
25: PANCHO'S TRAVELING SHOW
26: THE GONZALES VS KRAMER RIVALRY
27: THE TWO PANCHOS
28: VERSUS ROSEWALL & HOAD
29: THE WORLD CHAMPION
30: THE END OF INEVITABILITY
31: THE OLD KING AND THE NEW WORLD
32: THE OPEN ERA & THE AGELESS FIRE
33: THE LAST LION
34: A LAST HURRAH
35: TWILIGHT & LEGACY
36: PANCHO BEHIND THE SCENES
37: THE FINAL SET
Author's Note
Bibliography
Index
The Author
Product details
| Published | 13 May 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9798216378785 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Illustrations | 11 bw images |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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