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Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women's Hoops on the Map
Basketball Belles How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women's Hoops on the Map Author:Sue Macy 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... more » 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.« less