As Tom Goes By

Tom Brown is one of the few serious tennis players left from the immediate post WWII era. Now in his mid-eighties, he is blessed with a clear and detailed memory, as well a droll story-telling style, as well as a collaborater, Lee Tyler, who is a professional sprotswriter. After a stint in the Army during WWII, he balanced a rapidly rising tenni career with law studies and a law practice. He was a winner at Wimbledon at age 23, winning both the Mens and Mixed Doubles Championships in 1946. He continued to play and compete as a young man, then returned to the game in the 1980s to become a pre-eminent senior player of the USA inhis age bracket. Ful of tennis celebrity name-dropping, tells of a tennis polayer and charming man.