Describes the activities of the members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the women's professional baseball league that existed between 1943 and 1954.

4) Sally Ride: life on a mission

Author

Macy, Sue

Language

English

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"Most people know Sally Ride as the first American female astronaut to travel in space. But in her lifetime she was also a nationally ranked tennis player, a physicist who enjoyed reading Shakespeare, a university professor, the founder of a company that helped inspire girls and young women to pursue careers in science and math, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom"--

5) Basketball belles: how two teams and one scrappy player put women's hoops on the map

Author

Macy, Sue

Publisher

Holiday House

Pub. Date

c2011

Edition

1st ed.

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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Language

English

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Raised on a cattle ranch, Agnes Morley was sent to Stanford University to learn to be a lady. Yet in no time she exchanged her breeches and spurs for bloomers and a basketball; and in April 1896 she made history. In a heart-pounding game against the University of California at Berkeley, Agnes led her team to victory in the first-ever intercollegiate women's basketball game, earning national attention and putting women's basketball on the map.

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1) Bull's-eye: a photobiography of Annie Oakley

2) Wheels of change: how women rode the bicycle to freedom (with a few flat tires along the way)

3) A whole new ball game: the story of the all-American girls professional baseball league

4) Sally Ride: life on a mission

5) Basketball belles: how two teams and one scrappy player put women's hoops on the map