Dust Bowl Girls

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At the height of the Great Depression, Sam Babb, the charismatic basketball coach of tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College, began dreaming Like so many others, he wanted a reason to have hope Traveling from farm to farm, he recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance at a better life a free college education if they would come play for his basketball team, the Cardinals Despite their fears of leaving home and the sacrifices faced by their families, the women followed Babb and his dream He shaped the Cardinals into a formidable team, and something extraordinary began to happen with passion for the game and heartfelt loyalty to one another and their coach, they won every game. Free Read Kindle ePUB Dust Bowl Girls Author Lydia Reeder – kino-fada.fr 3.5 starsAs soon as I saw the cover and description for Dust Bowl Girls, I knew I had to read it Both of my parents are from Oklahoma and still maintain close ties to the state While my parents grew up in Ard, my grandfather lived for a while in Durant, and several of my relatives are buried there Dust Bowl Girls details the extraordinary success of the women s basketball team from Oklahoma Presbyterian College in the midst of the Depression With incredible dedication and commitment, Sam 3.5 starsAs soon as I saw the cover and description for Dust Bowl Girls, I knew I had to read it Both of my parents are from Oklahoma and still maintain close ties to the state While my parents grew up in Ard, my grandfather lived for a while in Durant, and several of my relatives are buried there Dust Bowl Girls details the extraordinary success of the women s basketball team from Oklahoma Presbyterian College in the midst of the Depression With incredible dedication and commitment, Sam Babb, the school s basketball coach, traveled all over rural Oklahoma to recruit women to play on his basketball team Babb offered them an education in exchange for playing basketball at a time when many families were barely scraping by Lydia Reeder, the great niece of Sam Bab...In todays competitive world where higher education, collegiate sports, and scholarships are universally desirable and obtainable it s good to remember prior to WWII college was typically out of reach for all but the elite the white male elite, at that Even then, it took until the mid to late seventies for equality to catch up with desire Prior to WWII, women were considered too muddleheaded, physically frail, not of temperament, given to vapors and such, to be aptly suited for college le In todays competitive world where higher education, collegiate sports, and scholarships are universally desirable and obtainable it s good to remember prior to WWII college was typically out of reach for all but the elite the white male elite, at that Even then, it took until the mid to late seventies for equality t...Nowadays, it is seldom that a book pulls me in and forces me to continue turning the pages Dust Bowl Girls was one of those books.Author Lydia Reeder tells the story of the Oklahoma Presbyterian College Cardinals and their magical year in 1932 The book almost reads like a novel, as Ms Reeder takes us deep into...A surprisingly good read I wish I could remember how it came to my notice probably a goodreads friend liked a review It seemed like something that I should give my attention to, given my interest in historical as well as fictional college girls Approaching it with a slightly weary sense of duty, I ended up being engrossed and entertained to a degree I didn t expect at all.Oklahoma Presbyterian College, in Durant OK, in the year 1931 is far removed physically, culturally, and temporally f A surprisingly good read I wish I could remember how it came to my notice probably a goodreads friend liked a review It seemed like something that I should give my attention to, given my interest in historical as well as fictional college girls Approaching it with a slightly weary sense of duty, I ended up being engrossed and entertained to a degree I didn t expect at all.Oklahoma Presbyterian College, in Durant OK, in the year 1931 is far removed physically, culturally, and ...The book tells the story of the 1932 AAU Women s basketball championship and the female students from Oklahoma Presbyterian College who overcame the odds and won the championship in the early years of the depression In telling this story, the book offers a fascinating account of the politics and debates that engulfed women s basketball in the 1930s Did strenuous physical activity endanger the overall health of the girls Did it make girls too mannish Would anyone watch girls play basketball The book tells the story of the 1932 AAU Women s basketball championship and the female students from Oklahoma Presbyterian College who overcame the odds and won the championship in the early years of the depression In telling this story, the book offers a fascinating account ...Thanks to Net Galley for the ARC This is a great story If you like sports stories read this book If you like stories about underdogs read this book I would have gone with a four but there were plenty of times that the author repeated herself when it was n...This review originally published in Looking For a Good Book Rated 5.0 of 5Dust Bowl Girls, by Lydia Reeder, is one of the most exciting, informative, and thoroughly engaging non fiction books I ve read this year This is a book that must be optioned for film it has all the ingredients for a truly spellbinding movie Think Hoosiers, A League of Their Own, or The Blind Side.Author Reeder has done an exhaustive amount of research on the coach, Sam Babb a great uncle of the author and the wome This review originally published in Looking For a Good Book Rated 5.0 of 5Dust Bowl Girls, by Lydia Reeder, is one of the most exciting, informative, and thoroughly engaging non fiction books I ve read this year This is a book that must be optioned for film it has all the ingredients for a truly spellbinding movie Think Hoosiers, A League of Their Own, or The Blind Side.Author Reeder has done an exhaustive amount of research on the coach, Sam Babb a great uncle of the author and the women of the 1932 Oklahoma Presbyterian College girl s basketball team She shares the research in a detailed Notes section.Basketball was different in the 1930 sso for women than for men and there was also th...This is an exhaustive recreation of the 1932 women s basketball season at Oklahoma Presbyterian College Unusual for being remarkably progressive, and being a school on contract with the Cherokee and Choctaw Nations to provide college educations for women, OPU recruited young women from dustbowl farms, ranches and factories At the time, national collegiate athletics, led by Lou Hoover, campaigned to keep women ladylike and non competitive, with special rules that made women s basketball look no This is an exhaustive recreation of the 19...This was a littledetailed than what I thought it would be I assumed it would be about basketball and a basketball team However, it got into the history of Oklahoma and the Trail of Tears and establishments and settlements It had a lot of names and how much was paid for what This would be a great book for someone who is really interested in the history of Oklahoma.However, that was not the case for me I had just wanted to read about this basketball team What I was able to read about t This was a littledetailed than what I thought it would be I assumed it would be about basketball and a basketball team However, it got into th...Oklahoma The Dust Bowl Women s basketball The season that made history The 1930s were a hard time for many, but none so much as the farmers of Oklahoma At the time, poor families made dresses out of grain sacks, basketball players owned one pair of shoes, and college especially for girls was a distant dream Coach Babb had different ideas He toured the state, recruiting the strongest players he could find in the high school circuit endowing those he found with skill, andimportantl Oklahoma The Dust Bowl Women s basketball The season that made history The 1930s were a hard time for many, but none so much as the farmers of Oklahoma At the time, poor families made dresses out of grain sacks, basketball players owned one pair of shoes, and college especially for girls was a distant dream Coach Babb had different ideas He toured the state, recruiting the strongest players he could find in the high school circuit endowing those he found with skill, andimportantly, purpose He coached the Cardinals in the city of Durant, and things wer...

Dust Bowl Girls
  • English
  • 17 October 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 304 pages
  • 1616204664
  • Lydia Reeder
  • Dust Bowl Girls