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13%OFFRobert W. Ikard - Just for Fun: The Story of AAU Women's Basketball - 9781557288899 - V9781557288899
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Just for Fun: The Story of AAU Women's Basketball

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Description for Just for Fun: The Story of AAU Women's Basketball Paperback. Presents the story of women's basketball's beginnings. Num Pages: 290 pages, 51 photographs, index. BIC Classification: WSJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 381.

Prior to the 1972 passage of Title IX, women’s basketball was a minor sport in the United States. It was played by companies such as Cook’s Goldblume Beer and Sunoco and for obscure colleges such as Iowa Wesleyan and Wayland Baptist as part of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). But during the two generations of the mid-twentieth century, women’s basketball improved and became more popular throughout the country. AAU All-Star teams dominated women’s international basketball until the emergence of subsidized national teams in the 1960s.

The women who played on these AAU teams helped to lay the foundation for women’s athletics ... Read more

This is the history of these gifted women, their coaches, and their teams—their records, motivations, and personal stories. Extensively illustrated, Just for Fun is the first book to thoroughly explore the complex history of the Amateur Athletic Union’s women’s basketball program and to bring to light the four decades of women’s basketball all but forgotten in the current success of women’s athletics.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557288899
SKU
V9781557288899
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

Reviews for Just for Fun: The Story of AAU Women's Basketball
Ikard (a basketball aficionado and amateur historian) offers a meticulous history of women's basketball in the US - from the first game played at Smith College in 1892 to the 1970s - but he focuses on the AAU in the first half of the 20th century.... This period of women's basketball is rarely discussed, so Ikard's book will be valuable ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Just for Fun: The Story of AAU Women's Basketball


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