Talk:American Colossus: Big Bill Tilden and the Creation of Modern Tennis
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[edit]- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 16:14, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
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- ... that American Colossus is a biography of a man who was "the most famous sportsman in the world" and "the most forgotten great athlete in American history"? Source:
Throughout the decade, Tilden was the most famous sportsman in the world
, Simon Briggs, "Brilliant New Biography Underlines Debt Tennis Owes to Big Bill Tilden", The Telegraph, February 23, 2018; andmost forgotten great athlete in American history
, Allen M. Hornblum as quoted in Dan Wolken, "Tennis Legend Bill Tilden's Controversial History Resurfaces in a Suitcase" USA Today, October 16, 2019.
Created by Hydrangeans (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 17 past nominations.
Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 04:50, 20 May 2024 (UTC).
Date, size, refs, hook, copyvio spotcheck, QPQ, etc. all fine - GTG. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:30, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
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