O God of Players
Author: Julie Byrne
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0231127480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the remarkable story of the first stars of women's basketball. In the early 1970s, few women participated in organized athletics, but in Catholic Philadelphia, women's basketball was already a well-established, thirty-year tradition. In this vivid account of Immaculata basketball, Julie Byrne explores the unusual lives of these young women, the rare opportunities and pleasures they were allowed, their religious culture, and the broader ideas of womanhood that they inspired and helped redefine.