Finding a Way to Play
Subtitle: The Pioneering Spirit of Women in Basketball
Publisher: Portlandia Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Newcastle, Maine, USA
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780996585705
First sentence: Many basketball fans have heard the story: James Naismith invented basketball one winter day in 1891 as a way to keep his stir-crazy, YMCA students in Springfield, Massachusetts, happy when the ground was covered with snow and the weather didn't permit going outside.
Table of contents: label: Introduction; label: A Game For Girls From the Beginning
title: 14; label: Basketball Moves West
title: 22; label: The Backlash Begins
title: 34; label: Harlem Roots
title: 44; label: The Roller Coaster of the 1920s
title: 56; label: The Babe's Legacy
title: 68; label: The Game Grows Like Corn in Iowa
title: 76; label: On the Road
title: 86; label: The Mighty Macs Lead the Way
title: 98; label: Going For Gold
title: 112; label: A League of Their Own, Briefly
title: 124; label: Out in the Open
title: 136; label: Cashing in
title: 148; label: A Bridge Made of Basketballs
title: 166; label: A Game for Life
title: 180; label: Index
title: 192; label: References
title: 201; label: Photo credits
title: 205