| Personal Name |
Maraniss, Andrew, author.
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| Title Statement |
Inaugural ballers : the true story of the first U.S. Women's Olympic basketball team / Andrew Maraniss
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Ã2022
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022.
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| Physical Description |
344 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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| Content Type |
still image sti rdacontent
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-313) and index.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Twenty years before women's soccer became an Olympic sport and two decades before the formation of the WNBA, the '76 US women's basketball team laid the foundation for the incredible rise of women's sports in America at the youth, collegiate, Olympic, and professional levels. Though they were unknowns from small schools such as Delta State, the University of Tennessee at Martin and John F. Kennedy College of Wahoo, Nebraska, at the time of the '76 Olympics, the American team included a roster of players who would go on to become some of the most legendary figures in the history of basketball. From Pat Head, Nancy Lieberman, Ann Meyers, Lusia Harris, coach Billie Moore, and beyond--these women took on the world and proved everyone wrong. Packed with black-and-white photos and thoroughly researched details about the beginnings of US women's basketball, Inaugural Ballers is the fascinating story of the women who paved the way for girls everywhere.
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| Subject-Meeting Name |
Olympic Games Montrâeal, Quâebec) 1976 : (21st :
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Basketball History. United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women basketball players Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Olympics History 20th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Basketball for women History.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women Olympic athletes Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Basketball History. United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women basketball players History. United States
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Young adult literature.
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