Bjorn Borg: My Life and Game by Bjorn Borg & Gene Scott

Bjorn Borg: My Life and Game (1980 UK Edition in Illustrated Dust Jacket)

The Swedish Champion's Own Account of His Life and Game, Written with Tennis Writer Gene Scott

Bibliographic Specifications

• Title: Bjorn Borg: My Life and Game
• Authors: Bjorn Borg & Gene Scott
• Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson, London
• Publication Date: 1980
• ISBN-10: 0283986638
• Edition Details: First published in Great Britain in 1980 by Sidgwick and Jackson Limited. Written with Gene Scott.
• Binding: Publisher's green cloth boards with an illustrated colour photographic dust jacket.
• Physical Format: Octavo (8vo) hardcover, illustrated with black and white photographic plates.
• Language: English

Official Condition Report

• The Book: Very Good (VG)
• Exterior / Boards: The green cloth boards are clean and sound, with a slight bump to the top corner of one board. The fore-edge and page edges are lightly toned.
• Interior: The pages are clean with light toning at the edges, and the binding is tight. The title page carries a slight yellowish tinge on the right side. Black and white photographic plates are included within the text. The inner jacket flap shows some small dark specks and a tape or film repair at the hinge edge.
• The Dust Jacket: Present. The glossy illustrated colour photographic jacket has a black spine with yellow lettering. It is clean on the front and back, with a small nick at the top of the spine and a tiny mark near the lower spine edge. The flaps are faintly specked and slightly toned on the inner surface. The jacket is protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover.

Synopsis & Historical Value

Bjorn Borg: My Life and Game is the autobiography of the Swedish tennis champion, written with the American tennis writer Gene Scott and published in London by Sidgwick & Jackson in 1980. It traces his start in the sport as a boy, his early rise to fame and his successes at Wimbledon and the French Open. It is part memoir and part instruction, with Borg setting out his own views on how he plays the game.

The book was written while Borg was still competing, so it captures him at the height of his career rather than looking back from retirement. It does not cover his later years. Borg won five consecutive Wimbledon men's singles titles from 1976 to 1980, and the volume appeared in the year of the last of them.

For collectors of tennis literature and sporting biography, this is a good copy of the UK hardcover in its original illustrated jacket.

Author Profile: Bjorn Borg

Bjorn Borg is a Swedish tennis player who won 66 singles titles during his career, including eleven major championships: six at the French Open and five consecutive titles at Wimbledon. He is often described as tennis's first global superstar.

Borg retired from top-level tennis while still in his twenties. Another of his books is My Guide to Better Tennis (1981, with Dennis Hart). His co-author on this volume, Gene Scott, was an American tennis figure who edited Tennis Week.