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Just for fun : the story of AAU women's basketball
- Title
- Just for fun : the story of AAU women's basketball / Robert W. Ikard.
- Author
- Ikard, Robert W.
- Publication
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | GV886 .I43 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xv, 263 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In the decades before the 1972 passage of Title IX, premier women's basketball was played by the teams in the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) ... [this book] is the history of these all-but-forgotten players and coaches who, while playing for an exuberant love of the game, laid the groundwork for modern women's basketball."--Back cover.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-246) and index.
- Contents
- A forgotten era -- Basketball in the oil patch -- Beer distributors, business schools, and hosiery girls -- Expansion and consolidation -- NBC, "the greatest" -- Looking back and ahead -- Appendix A. AAU women's basketball All-Americans -- Appendix B. Top-four finishers in AAU tournaments -- Appendix C. The mythical all-star teams.
- ISBN
- 155728783X
- 9781557287830
- 9781557288899
- 1557288895
- LCCN
- 2004021104
- OCLC
- ocm56491020
- 56491020
- SCSB-1358385
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library