The Outsider: A Memoir
by:
Jimmy Connors (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009R4O718
Publish date: May 14th 2013
Publisher: Harper
Pages no: 579
Edition language: English
As a fairly regular viewer of tennis in the 70s and 80s I remember wondering whether all of the on-court Connors belligerence was real. From this account, I get a curiously mixed answer. It was, apparently, real enough in the moment, and the hostility towards many of his opponents - on and off the c...
I really loved that this book felt more like Jimmy was having a conversation with me than reading a book. Jimmy Connors still isn't well liked and he does come across as a jerk in this book but he doesn't really care. While I was annoyed with Jimmy through some (ok, maybe most) of the book I did enj...