Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women's Hoops on the Map
by:
Sue Macy (author)
Matt Collins (author)
This dynamic picture book about the birth of women's basketball will keep young readers riveted. Raised on a cattle ranch, Agnes Morley was sent to Stanford University to learn to be a lady. Yet in no time she exchanged her breeches and spurs for bloomers and a basketball; and in April 1896 she...
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This dynamic picture book about the birth of women's basketball will keep young readers riveted. Raised on a cattle ranch, Agnes Morley was sent to Stanford University to learn to be a lady. Yet in no time she exchanged her breeches and spurs for bloomers and a basketball; and in April 1896 she made history. In a heart--pounding game against the University of California at Berkeley, Agnes led her team to victory in the first-ever intercollegiate women s basketball game, earning national attention and putting women s basketball on the map.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780823421633 (0823421635)
Publish date: April 1st 2011
Publisher: Holiday House
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Non Fiction,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Juvenile,
19th Century,
Picture Books,
Sports And Games,
Sports,
Basketball
Interesting and entertaining story of pioneering female basketball player Agnes Morley.
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