1. Racquet Trilogy: Lawn Tennis, the World's Fair, and the Early Modern Olympic Games Open Access Author: Hummel, Brad Title: Racquet Trilogy: Lawn Tennis, the World's Fair, and the Early Modern Olympic Games Graduate Program: Kinesiology Keywords: tennislawn tennisolympicsolympic gamesAthens 1896Paris 1900St. Louis 1904modern olympic gameshistory of tennishistory of the olympic gamesolympic historyworld's fairworld expositionworld expoExposition UniverselleLouisiana Purchase Expositionwomen at the olympic gamestennis equipmentmarketing of tennissportssports historyball gamessummer olympicsPierre de CoubertinDwight DavisCharlotte CooperReginald DohertyLaurence DohertyJohn Pius BolandBeals WrightEdgar LeonardAlphonzo BellRobert LeRoyFriedrich TraunHarold MahonyInternational Olympic CommitteeAlbert Goodwill SpaldingA.G. Spalding and Bros.Max DecugisHelene Prevost File: Download Brad_William_Hummel_Thesis.pdf Committee Members: Mark Dyreson, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorFrancisco Javier Lopez Frias, Committee MemberMichelle Marie Sikes, Committee MemberJonathan Bates Dingwell, Program Head/Chair