State: A Team, A Triumph, A Transformation Audiobook by Melissa Isaacson

https://libranovo.com/free Listen to free audiobooks with a 30-day free trial! Title: State: A Team, A Triumph, A Transformation Genres: History, Sports & Recreation, Biography & Memoir, North America, Basketball, Women Author: Melissa Isaacson Narrator: Melissa Isaacson Release date: 11-26-2019 Length: 10:12:24 Language: English Publisher: Brilliance Audio Description: Set against a backdrop of social change during the 1970s, State is a compelling first-person account of what it was like to live through both traditional gender discrimination in sports and the joy of the very first days of equality—or at least the closest that one high school girls’ basketball team ever came to it. In 1975, freshman Melissa Isaacson—along with a group of other girls who’d spent summers with their noses pressed against the fences of Little League ball fields, unable to play—entered Niles West High School in suburban Chicago with one goal: make a team, any team.