The Outsider: A Memoir Hardcover - 2013
by Jimmy Connors
Connors ignited the tennis boom in the mid O70s with his aggressive style of play, his vulgar antics, and his renegade behavior. He sets the record straight--about his mother, his life, and the game he dominated for so long.
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Jimmy Connors is a working-man's hero, a people's champion who could tear the cover off a tennis ball, just as he tore the cover off the country-club gentility of his sport. A renegade from the wrong side of the tracks, Connors broke the rules with a radically aggressive style of play and bad-boy antics that turned his matches into prizefights. In 1974 alone, he won 95 out of 99 matches, all of them while wearing the same white shorts he washed in the sink of his hotel bathrooms. Though he lived the rock star life away from tennis, his enduring dedication to his craft earned him eight Grand Slam singles titles and kept him among the top ten best players in the world for sixteen straight years--five at number one.
In The Outsider, Connors tells the complete, uncensored story of his life and career, setting the record straight about his formidable mother, Gloria; his very public romance with America's sweetheart Chris Evert; his famous opponents, including Bjrn Borg, John McEnroe, Arthur Ashe, Ivan Lendl, and Rod Laver; his irrepressible co-conspirators Ilie Nastase and Vitas Gerulaitis; and his young nemesis Andre Agassi. Connors reveals how his issues with obsessive-compulsive disorder, dyslexia, gambling, and women at various times threatened to derail his career and his long-lasting marriage to Playboy Playmate Patti McGuire.
Presiding over an era that saw tennis attract a new breed of passionate fans--from cops to tycoons--Connors transformed the game forever with his two-handed backhand, his two-fisted lifestyle, and his epic rivalries.
The Outsider is a grand slam of a memoir written by a man once again at the top of his game--as feisty, unvarnished, and defiant as ever.
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- Title The Outsider: A Memoir
- Author Jimmy Connors
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper, New York
- Date 2013-05
- ISBN 9780061242991 / 0061242993
- Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.24 x 6.37 x 1.38 in (23.47 x 16.18 x 3.51 cm)
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- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 05/24/2013, Page 88
- Kirkus Reviews, 07/01/2013, Page 0
- New York Times Book Review, 06/02/2013, Page 36
- People Weekly, 05/27/2013, Page 51
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