The Courts We Built: The Battle for a Tennis Cathedral, (Hardcover)

<p>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.</p><p>For forty-five years, both sides kept that promise.</p><p>Then the YMCA stopped.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>

• The Courts We Built: The Battle for a Tennis Cathedral, (Hardcover)
• Author: Cathedral Foundation Press
• ISBN: 9780983749530
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2026-04-22
• Page Count: 114