The original essays in this comprehensive collection examine the lives and sports of famous and not-so-famous African American male and female athletes from the

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant tennis career, unwavering acti

The only anthology available documenting 100 years of women in American sports

Levels of the Game is John McPhee's astonishing account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968. It begins with t

When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with "a spectacular leap," African American women had been participat