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The Courts We Built: The Battle for a Tennis Cathedral

by Douglas McCarty
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780983749530
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cathedral Foundation Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cathedral Foundation Press
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  • Pages: 114
  • Original Price: GBP 18.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 327 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

In 1977, thirty-six people in Eugene, Oregon opened their checkbooks and built a tennis center on a handshake with the YMCA. No contract. No lawyers. Just a promise: we build it, you run it as a tennis center. For everybody.

For forty-five years, both sides kept that promise.

Then the YMCA stopped.

This is the story of what happens when an institution breaks faith with the community that built it - and what that community does next. Drawing on Orwell, Cervantes, Buber, and William James, Douglas McCarty makes the case for saving a place that matters, and offers a vision for what it could become.

Part history of the place, part love letter to tennis - and a battle plan for anyone who has ever watched a bureaucracy consume something irreplaceable.

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