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A fact from American Colossus: Big Bill Tilden and the Creation of Modern Tennis appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 July 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that American Colossus is a biography of a man who was "the most famous sportsman in the world" and "the most forgotten great athlete in American history"?

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... that American Colossus is a biography of a man who was "the most famous sportsman in the world" and "the most forgotten great athlete in American history"? Source: Throughout the decade, Tilden was the most famous sportsman in the world, Simon Briggs, "Brilliant New Biography Underlines Debt Tennis Owes to Big Bill Tilden", The Telegraph, February 23, 2018; and most forgotten great athlete in American history, Allen M. Hornblum as quoted in Dan Wolken, "Tennis Legend Bill Tilden's Controversial History Resurfaces in a Suitcase" USA Today, October 16, 2019.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kully Thiarai

Created by Hydrangeans (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 17 past nominations.

Hydrangeans (she/her | talk | edits) 04:50, 20 May 2024 (UTC).Reply

Date, size, refs, hook, copyvio spotcheck, QPQ, etc. all fine - GTG. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:30, 20 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

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