More than bricks and mortar

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More Than Bricks and Mortar:
A History of the Atlanta Athletic Club
The story of the Atlanta Athletic Club is a slice of Atlanta's history from the turn of the century to the present. "Atlanta in the late 1890s was still as much country town as city. Men still gathered of a summer afternoon on the street corner at Five Points," the story begins. From there it traces the gradual emergence of city life through the microcosm of a single club's membership.
A rising tide of interest in sports across the United States led to the club's founding by an energetic group of young professionals. Soon coach John Heisman had put together a rough-and-tumble basketball team "that could hold its own in the raucous hoop and hardwood environment of the day." His successor, Joe Bean, a tough, wiry, sometimes profane Irishman, carried on the tradition, and the club's gym resonated with the shouts of fans on Saturday nights. At the same time, the new club was making a name in tennis. With the club's... Tovább

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More Than Bricks and Mortar:
A History of the Atlanta Athletic Club
The story of the Atlanta Athletic Club is a slice of Atlanta's history from the turn of the century to the present. "Atlanta in the late 1890s was still as much country town as city. Men still gathered of a summer afternoon on the street corner at Five Points," the story begins. From there it traces the gradual emergence of city life through the microcosm of a single club's membership.
A rising tide of interest in sports across the United States led to the club's founding by an energetic group of young professionals. Soon coach John Heisman had put together a rough-and-tumble basketball team "that could hold its own in the raucous hoop and hardwood environment of the day." His successor, Joe Bean, a tough, wiry, sometimes profane Irishman, carried on the tradition, and the club's gym resonated with the shouts of fans on Saturday nights. At the same time, the new club was making a name in tennis. With the club's courts located a stone's throw from Five Points, championship players soon developed, including the city's most famous father-and-son pair, Bryan and Bitsy Grant.
It was a time of champions, and the one who would become the club's most famous' was barely school-age when he had his first win at the "new" sport of golf. "On a summer night in 1908," the chapter begins, "a six-year-old, somewhat frail boy named Bobby Jones climbed into his bed on the sleeping porch of a summer home at East Lake Country Club. He drifted off into the pleasantest of dreams, holding in his arms the tiny three-inch-high silver trophy he had won in a golf tournament that day." In the fall of 1930 that boy - now grown to a man of such skill and modesty he was considered a model for athletes — won another trophy, and with it the Grand Slam of golf. This book details the shaping of this champion, including the exact moment when the "lion" was born in his heart and he changed from an uncertain, defensive player to a hard-aggressive competitor. Vissza