The Courts We Built

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The Battle for a Tennis Cathedral

Douglas McCarty

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English

Cathedral Foundation Press
22 April 2026

Biography: sport; Social issues & processes; Political activism; Tennis

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In 1977, thirty-six people in Eugene, Oregon opened their checkbooks and built a tennis center on a handshake with the YMCA. No contract. No lawyers. Just a promise: we build it, you run it as a tennis center. For everybody.

For forty-five years, both sides kept that promise.

Then the YMCA stopped.

This is the story of what happens when an institution breaks faith with the community that built it - and what that community does next. Drawing on Orwell, Cervantes, Buber, and William James, Douglas McCarty makes the case for saving a place that matters, and offers a vision for what it could become.

Part history of the place, part love letter to tennis - and a battle plan for anyone who has ever watched a bureaucracy consume something irreplaceable.

By: Douglas McCarty
Imprint: Cathedral Foundation Press
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 327g
ISBN: 9780983749530
ISBN 10: 0983749531
Pages: 114
Publication Date: 22 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active