Overlooked: The Woman Who Brought Tennis to America

"A Rally", 1885 painting by Sir John Lavery. Mary Ewing Outerbridge set up one of the first courts in the United States there in the 1870s.
( John Lavery/Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons )

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