网球是一项高风险的运动，由早期被认定的天才进行，并由专业人士指导，希望获得高排名和认可。这个商业世界与这项运动的起源相去甚远。1968年温布尔登首次邀请职业选手参赛之前，网球是一种强调个性而非金钱的体育精神传统的一部分。它培养出了多才多艺的绅士，他们表达的是荣誉准则，而不是商业准则。
在这部权威而深情的男子网球史上，杰出的社会学家E.迪格比·巴尔策尔重获了这个时代的荣耀。从19世纪末的贵族出身到蒂尔登时代，再到一系列新来者，业余时代及其美德在民主化和冲突的一个世纪里得以延续。
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Sporting Gentlemen: Men’s Tennis from the Age of Honor to the Cult of the Superstar
Tennis is a high-stakes game, played by prodigies identified early and coached by professionals in hopes of high rankings and endorsements. This commercial world is far removed from the origins of the sport. Before 1968 when Wimbledon invited professional players to compete for the first time tennis was part of a sportsmanship tradition that emphasized character over money. It produced well-rounded gentlemen who expressed a code of honor, not commerce.
In this authoritative and affectionate history of men’s tennis, distinguished sociologist E. Digby Baltzell recovers the glory of the age. From its aristocratic origins in the late ninteenth century, to the Tilden years, and through a succession of newcomers, the amateur era and its virtues survived a century of democratization and conflict.
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