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The Story of AAU Women’s Basketball
Bob Ikard
The previously untold story of women’s basketball’s
beginnings“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 to sports historians. . . . Highly recommended.”
—Choice
“Exceptional chronicle of a sorely overlooked period
in American sports.”
—Ron Wynn, Nashville City Paper
“Well documented for a history aimed at the general
reader, Ikard’s work is likely to become a launching
point for a renewed look into a corner of women’s and
sports history overlooked by researchers.”
—Bill Smith, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
original
cloth edition
July
6 x 9, 290 pages, 51 photographs, index
$19.95 (s) paper
ISBN 978-1-55728-889-9 | 1-55728-889-5
$24.95
(s) cloth
ISBN 978-1-55728-783-0 | 1-55728-783-X
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