From the New York Times best-selling author of Strong Inside comes the inspirational True Story of the birth of women\'s Olympic Basketball at the 1976 Summer Games and the ragtag Team that put US women\'s Basketball on the map.
Packed with 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..
From Pat Head, Nancy Lieberman, Ann Meyers, Lusia Harris, coach Billie Moore, and beyond--these women took on the world and proved everyone wrong.
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.
Though they were unknowns from small schools such as Delta State, the University of Tennessee at Martin, and John F.
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.
A League of Their Own meets Miracle in the inspirational True Story of the First US Women\'s Olympic Basketball Team and their unlikely rise to the top.
Perfect for fans of Steve Sheinkin and Daniel James Brown.
From the New York Times best-selling author of Strong Inside comes the inspirational True Story of the birth of women\'s Olympic Basketball at the 1976 Summer Games and the ragtag Team that put US women\'s Basketball on the map
