Just for Fun: the Story of Aau Women's Basketball (c)University of Arkansas Press, 2005 - 263 pages "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. |
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Basketball in the Oil Patch | 21 |
Beer Distributors Business School and Hosiery Girls | 51 |
Experience and Consolidation | 95 |
NBC The Greatest | 121 |
Looking Back and Ahead | 155 |
AAU WOMENS BASKETBALL ALLAMERICANS | 201 |
TOPFOUR FINISHERS IN AAU TOURNAMENTS | 215 |
THE MYTHICAL ALLSTAR TEAMS | 219 |
NOTES | 223 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 239 |
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