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Title: Jimmy Connors
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1980
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1889-1989
After winning the NCAA singles title as a freshman at UCLA, Jimmy Connors turned pro and won five U.S. Open and two Wimbledon crowns. A scrappy, relentless competitor, he used an unorthodox two-handed backhand to complement his uncanny service return and his "bad boy" theatrics.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00048858
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Connors, Jimmy.
CARL0000052891
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17332
Subject: Connors, Jimmy,--1952-
Tennis
Tennis players
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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