| LC control no. | n 88015805 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Trabert, Tony |
| Variant(s) | Trabert, Marion Anthony, 1930-2021 |
| Located | Ponte Vedra Beach (Fla.) |
| Birth date | 1930-08-16 |
| Death date | 2021-02-03 |
| Place of birth | Cincinnati (Ohio) |
| Place of death | Ponte Vedra Beach (Fla.) |
| Field of activity | Tennis Television broadcasting of sports |
| Affiliation | CBS Inc. International Tennis Hall of Fame |
| Profession or occupation | Tennis players Sportscasters |
| Found in | His Trabert on tennis, c1988: CIP t.p. (Tony Trabert) pub. info. (tennis pro., res. near Jacksonville, Fla.) Tennis past 50, c2001: CIP t.p. (Tony Trabert) data sheet (b. Aug. 16, 1930) Washington post WWW site, viewed Feb. 8, 2021 (in obituary dated Feb. 6, 2021: Tony Trabert, one of the biggest tennis stars of the 1950s, who won five major singles championships and five more in doubles play before a long career in broadcasting, died Feb. 3 at his home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Marion Anthony Trabert was born Aug. 16, 1930, in Cincinnati. He was 90. Mr. Trabert spent more than 30 years as a broadcaster for CBS and for Australian television networks, covering tennis, golf and other sports. From 1976 to 1980 he was captain of the U.S. Davis Cup tennis teams, leading players in international team competitions. He was inducted in 1970 into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, R.I., and later spent 10 years as the Hall of Fame's president, retiring in 2011) |
| Associated language | eng |
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