A history of basketball for girls and women : from bloomers to big leagues
Title:
A history of basketball for girls and women : from bloomers to big leagues
Author:
Lannin, Joanne.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Minneapolis : Lerner Sports, [2000]
©2000
Physical Description:
144 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Summary:
Traces the development of women's basketball, from its beginnings at Smith College to today's Women's National Basketball Association.
Language:
English
Contents:
A girls' game from the beginning -- Basketball travels West and South -- Changing the rules -- The roller coaster of the roaring '20s -- Babe and Texas league basketball -- Basketball grows like corn in Iowa -- The AAU era -- A time of change -- Olympian promise, professional failure -- Growing pains in the '80s -- Into the spotlight -- Into the future.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.5 6.0 49694.
ISBN:
9780822533313
9780822598633
Format :
Book
