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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 / Joanne Lannin.
- Author
- Lannin, Joanne.
- Publication
- Minneapolis : Lerner Sports, c2000.
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Details
- Description
- 144 p. : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.
- Summary
- Traces the development of women's basketball, from its beginnings at Smith College to today's Women's National Basketball Association.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-141) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFF 00-3698
- ISBN
- 0822533316 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
- 0822598639 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99050643
- OCLC
- 42772815
- Author
- Lannin, Joanne.
- Title
- A history of basketball for girls and women : from bloomers to big leagues / Joanne Lannin.
- Imprint
- Minneapolis : Lerner Sports, c2000.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-141) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 00-3698