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Arthur Ashe's Forest City Tennis Club Award from 1966. Plaque reads in full: ''To / ARTHUR ASHE, JR. / From / Forest City Tennis Club / For Being / A Great Guy & / A Great Tennis Player / Aug. 1966''. Indeed, Ashe's grand achievements in tennis were paralleled only by his humanitarian efforts, which included civil rights activism on a global scale. Measures 9'' x 12''. Scattered scratching to engraved plate and bumping to wooden corners, else near fine. With an LOA from Arthur Ashe's widow.
Arthur Ashe's Award Plaque Presented to Him by the Forest City Tennis Club in 1966 -- For ''Being A Great Guy & A Great Tennis Player''
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