{"product_id":"the-courts-we-built-douglas-mccarty-9780983749547","title":"The Courts We Built: The Battle for a Tennis Cathedral:","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor forty-five years, both sides kept that promise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the YMCA stopped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart history of the place, part love letter to tennis - and a battle plan for anyone who has ever watched a bureaucracy consume something irreplaceable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Douglas McCarty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 098374954X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780983749547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cathedral Foundation Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d","brand":"Douglas McCarty","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852873117951,"sku":"9780983749547","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-courts-we-built-douglas-mccarty-9780983749547","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}