Bigger Than Life: A Biography of Francis X. Shields

By William Shield and William X. Sheilds

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881910287
• ISBN13: 9780881910285
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Freundlich Books
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Bittersweet memories of another day.

This is the story of Frank Shields, a great tennis star who was ranked as the best tennis player in the whole world in 1933. It was witten by his son.Shield was a real high liver in the early 20th century running with Barrymores, Clark Gable and other. He was a free liver and a free lover. A passionate Irish fellow, he was wild and irresponsible, and yet irresistable in his own way. William Shields writes of his father with a warm love, even though he does give notice to all his imperfections.