KAHN, LIZ; FOREWORD BY BETTY HICKS

L P G a: The Unauthorized Version the History of the Ladies Professional Golf Association

Menlo Park, CA: Group Fore Productions, Inc, 1996. First Edition (?). Hardcover. ISBN: 088197126X. Hardcover is dark green with gold lettering on spine. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Illustrated with dozens of b/w photos. Sections are: First 45 Years; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s & 1980s; 1990s; WPGA Founders, LPGA Charter Members. Gives a biography and history of each of the many women, stars of their days in the golfing world. The 13 LPGA charter members were: Alice Bauer; Patty Berg; Bettye Mims Danoff; Helen Dettweiler; Marlene Hagge; Helen Hicks; Opal Hill; Betty Jameson; Sally Sessions; Marilynn Smith; Shirley Spork; Louise Suggs; Babe [Didrickson] Zaharias [who as Babe Didrickson was THE American track and field star at the 1932 Los Angeles summer Olympics]. Oversized, 4#. ; B&W Photographs; 7 1/4 x 10 1/2; 308+ pages; Cover has very slight bumping; neat pen note on front end paper. DJ has slight rubbing/scuffing, shelf wear.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 4074

Catalogue: Women in Sports

Keywords: 088197126x Sports; Athletes; Women Activists; Women's History; Women Athletes; Professional Athletes; Gender Bias; Gender Roles; Biography; Women/Womens' History Sports/Athletics Cultural History History American History Biography/Memoirs/Journals Busines

SUMPTION, DOROTHY

Sports for Women

New York: Prentice Hall, Inc, 1940. First Edition. Cloth. Cover is blue cloth with gold lettering on front and spine. Very minor sunning and shelf wear, almost invisible. Stamped on inside front cover with department stamp from U. Of Mich, and again on bottom of title page. Pages have a little sunning and wear, but otherwise exceptionally clean and intact. A good book about the attitude for women and sports pre-WWII. Shows how far we've come. Many b/w drawings, diagrams and photos. Mentions such sports as dancing; tennis, bowling, swimming, fencing, badminton, table tennis, and archery. Another book that foreshadows the advent of Title IX legislation for girls' and womens' school athletics. ; Ex-Library; B&W Illustrations; 6 X 8 1/4; 264 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 7839

Catalogue: Women in Sports

Keywords: Sports; Athletics; Women; Women's Sports; Educatio Sports; Athletics; Women; Womens' History; Cultural History; Colleges; College Sports; Women in Sports; Women/Womens' History Sports/Athletics Medicine/Health/Health Care Cultural History Education Scienc