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Basketball Belles: How Two Teams And One Scrappy Player Put Women's Hoops On The Map (2011)

by Sue Macy(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0823421635 (ISBN13: 9780823421633)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Holiday House

review 1: Macy, S. (2011). Basketball Belles. Quang Dong Providence, China: Kwong Fat Offset Co. Sub Group: Gender roles Genre: Biography Topics: women’s basketball Synopsis: Belles was a young girl who never saw herself as a girly-girl. She was more comfortable in breeches and spurs than a skirt, and a bit of a tomboy. Her mother hoped that by sending her to a different university that she would become more lady like but she was wrong. Belles played basketball which was looked at as a negative thing during these times since basketball was designed as men’s sport. Belles played in the first women’s college basketball game at Stanford University.
review 2: A wonderful account of what it must have been like to be a "pioneer" of women's basketball. Beautiful picture... mores that accurately depict time period, complete with girls playing basketball in bloomers. Can't help but reflect upon the ridiculous rules that women were placed under when men weren't allowed to watch them play basketball because of witnessing women perspiring. GAG! I would love to have my students who love the sport of basketball, crack the cover of this aspiring account. It is a "League of their own" with two hoops and an orange ball. less

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