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02531aam a2200313 i 4500 001 884B6902383D11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240702013519 008 231028t20242024iluaf b 000 0deng d 020 $a 1637271980 020 $a 9781637271988 035 $a (OCoLC)1406095451 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d IMD $d OQX $d OCLCO $d MBB $d OCLCO $d IWP $d SILO 100 1 $a Megdal, Howard. 245 10 $a Rare gems : $b how four generations of women paved the way for the WNBA / $c Howard Megdal. 246 30 $a How four generations of women paved the way for the Women's National Basketball Association 264 1 $a Chicago, Illinois : $b Triumph Books, $c [2024] 300 $a xxvi, 225 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-225). 505 0 $a Foreword / by Rachel Banham -- Introduction -- Prologue: Before the beginning -- Peps - Vicky -- Cheryl -- The team house -- Lindsay -- Carley and Cheryl -- "This is what we do!" -- Change -- Home -- Epilogue: Pep's place. 520 $a This is the story of the pioneers who shaped so much of the modern infrastructure for women's basketball, whose histories intersect and wind their way through the state of Minnesota. It is the story of forcing open doors--to ensure teams even existed, to allow those teams to play in conditions resembling those men could take for granted, to ensure that the color of your skin or who you love would not be a barrier to building a life centered around basketball. To end the double-standard that treats every undeniable success by women as a one-off, but every setback as a referendum. Four generations of women have played essential and diverse roles: Neuman and her friend and collaborator of a half-century, Vicky Nelson; Cheryl Reeve and her wife, Carley Knox; Lindsay Whalen, Maya Moore, Seimone Augustus, Sylvia Fowles, and WNBA's Minnesota Lynx; right through to the future of the game in Bueckers and the stars of tomorrow. Through meticulous research and evocative storytelling, this captivating narrative gives due recognition to the luminaries who ushered in women's basketball's modern era. 610 20 $a Women's National Basketball Association. 650 0 $a Women basketball players. 650 0 $a Women $x History. $x History. 700 1 $a Banham, Rachel. 941 $a 1 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240702025646.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=884B6902383D11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search