Gardiner's Tennis Ranch: The Summer of '73 is a coming of age memoir of professional Kris Milligan set at a summer camp in the premier, exclusive tennis club of the day. Milligan and his fellow counselors experience the California hot spots as only wide-eyed, Midwestern teenagers can. The reader is introduced to tennis legends, movie stars, crooners, literati and celebrities of a bygone era, when America was searching for its identity along with the story's protagonist