Inaugural Ballers
By: Andrew Maraniss
4.25
Format: None pages, None
From the New York Times bestselling author of Strong Inside comes the inspirational true story of t…
Want to Read $ 9.99"It was the USSR, as an emerging basketball power in the 1950s, that first called on Olympic leaders to officially add women's basketball to the program as a medal sport, a half century after the Fort Shaw girls demonstrated the game in St. Louis. Their first attempt came during a June 1955 meeting of the International Olympic Committee in Paris, where the Soviets asked delegates to vote on the adding women's competitions in volleyball, basketball, speed skating, and rowing, all of which were already open to male athletes."-Andrew Maraniss, Inaugural Ballers
"It meant that I and every other woman I knew had been living a lie, and all the doctors who treated us and the experts who studied us were perpetuating that lie, and our homes and schools and churches and politics and professions were built around that lie," she (Betty Friedan) wrote. "If women were really people -- no more, no less -- then all the things that kept them from being full people in our society would have to be changed. And women, once they broke through the feminine mystique and took themselves seriously as people, would see their place on a false pedestal, even their glorification as sexual objects, for the putdown it was."-Andrew Maraniss, Inaugural Ballers
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31. Inaugural Ballers
By: Andrew Maraniss
4.25
Format: None pages, None
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"It was the USSR, as an emerging basketball power in the 1950s, that first called on Olympic leaders to officially add women's basketball to the program as a medal sport, a half century after the Fort…"-Andrew Maraniss, Inaugural Ballers
"It meant that I and every other woman I knew had been living a lie, and all the doctors who treated us and the experts who studied us were perpetuating that lie, and our homes and schools and churche…"-Andrew Maraniss, Inaugural Ballers
