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My first tennis racquet was a plate. We were supposed to go on a picnic, and we kids were waiting outside by the garage. We had a soft ball, it might have been a tennis ball, I don't recall. For some reason my brother and I started hitting it back and forth with the heavy wooden plates that were in our picnic set. First we used two hands and just bunted at the ball, but eventually I used one hand and found that I could brush the ball as I hit it, adding spin and making the ball do things. I loved that. Mom wasn't too thrilled that I was dirtying the plate. At some point, Dad realized I was interested in tennis. I never knew my Dad to play tennis, but growing up there was always this Spalding Pancho Gonzales racquet in the garage or in his closet, or somewhere. It was a skinny wood racquet with white plastic on the throat, it had a vinyl cover, and was squeezed in a racquet press. So I guess he had at least played a few times. One day he came home with two racquets, an aluminum Spalding Smasher III and a wood Wilson Stan Smith. How he picked these two, I have no idea. I tried both. The Smasher must have been intended to compete with Jimmy Connors Wilson T-2000 tubular steel racquet, but it felt dead on the arm. I preferred the Smith, which was basically a stiffer-throated version of the immensely popular Jack Kramer Autograph. There's a story that both Kramer and another pro were endorsing racquets, and that Kramer accepted a half-percent less than the other guy, so Wilson pushed his racquet harder. Another story quotes Kramer, " When I turned pro in 1947, I played with a Don Budge model. I signed the deal (with Wilson) to have my own racket, they sent me some, I played with it, hated it ... I called Wilson up, told them to shove it, that I was going back to my Budge racket. And so they just changed the color of the lamination of the Budge racket, put my name on it ... "

At high school, most players had the Kramer, or the Dunlop Maxply Fort. They had small heads compared to today. The racquets, I mean. Racquet heads were about 65 to 70 square inches. I never played anyone at high school - they were all very experienced and must have taken lessons, or something. In college I took a Tennis and Badminton course, though, and learned enough to get killed by real players. After I wore out the Smith, I got a Kramer.

But the world of racquets kept changing. John McEnroe burst on the scene with his Wilson Pro Staff, so I had to have one of those. Actually two of those. For a few years.

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