20 Facts About Donald Dell

Donald L Dell was born on June 17,1938 and is an American sports attorney, writer, commentator, and former tennis player.

Donald Dell was the founder of Professional Services, one of the nation's first sports marketing firms established in 1970.

Donald Dell is considered one of the fathers of sports marketing and the sports agent business along with IMG's Mark McCormack.

Donald Dell co-founded the Association of Tennis Professionals in 1972 with Jack Kramer and Cliff Drysdale.

ProServ expanded into basketball, and Donald Dell signed Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordan, and other top NBA players.

Donald Dell wrote his first book, Minding Other People's Business in 1989 about how to recruit, manage, market, and keep client athletes, and a second book in 2009, Never Make the First Offer.

Donald Dell negotiated two of the most successful shoe deals in all of sports: Michael Jordan's Air Jordan line with Nike and the Stan Smith shoe with Adidas.

Donald Dell has a younger brother, Dick, who worked at ProServ and went to the University of Michigan and was Big Ten Tennis Champion.

Donald Dell played his collegiate tennis at Yale University, where he was a three-time All-American.

Donald Dell reached the NCAA singles final in 1959, and he was a semifinalist in 1960.

Donald Dell played on the United States Davis Cup team in 1961 and 1963, and he was the captain of the winning Cup teams of 1968 and 1969.

In 1961, Donald Dell was a quarterfinalist at the US National championships, and at the Cincinnati Masters, he was a singles finalist in 1959 and a semifinalist in 1958.

Donald Dell received his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1960 and his law degree from the University of Virginia in 1964.

Donald Dell worked with the presidential campaigns of Robert F Kennedy in 1968 and Sargent Shriver in 1972.

Donald Dell was a founder of the ATP Players' Union with Jack Kramer and Cliff Drysdale in 1972, and he was co-founder with John A Harris, head of Potomac Ventures, of the Citi Open tennis tournament in Washington, DC in 1969.

Donald Dell is the vice chairman of the International Tennis Hall of Fame and a member of the board of directors for the Arthur Ashe Institute of Urban Health.

Donald Dell was a tennis commentator for PBS and NBC television in the 1970s and 1980s with Bud Collins and Barry MacKay, and he made appearances on WUSA, the CBS local affiliate station.

Donald Dell was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2009.

Donald Dell was inducted into the ITA College Tennis Hall of Fame in 1993.

Donald Dell was elected to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2009.