as grass season ramps up

Venus & Serena: Serving from the Hip -- Ten Rules for Living, Loving, and Winning (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005) was written with Hilary Beard, a writer who played tennis as a child. This appears on the dedication page:


For Charles A. Beard, who weeded the grass courts at Newport's tennis casino
yet, because he was Negro, was not allowed to play there;
and Peggy Lanton Beard, who taught me goodness, optimism, and courage.