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Dust Bowl Girls [large type] : the inspiring story of the team that barnstormed its way to basketball glory / Lydia Reeder.

by Reeder, Lydia, author.

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Farming Hills, Michigan : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017.

Babb, Sam, 1891-1937.

Harris, Doll, 1913-2001.

Oklahoma Presbyterian College -- Basketball -- History.

Basketball coaches -- Oklahoma -- Biography.

Women basketball players -- Oklahoma -- Biography.

Basketball for women -- Oklahoma -- History.

9781410496720 (large print : hardcover)

1410496724 (large print : hardcover)

Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction.

509 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Large Print edition.

New recruit -- The making of a coach -- The field house, 4 a.m -- A good shot maker believes in herself -- Choctaw town -- A man's sport -- Weak ankles and weaker nerves -- Barnstorm -- End game -- Babe Didrikson and the Golden Cyclones -- Guts and glory -- Next stop, Shreveport -- Brains, beauty, and ball handling -- A team that won't be beat can't be beat -- A hometown welcome.

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.

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