These remarkable athletes found a passion for the game and a heartfelt loyalty to one another and their coach - and they began to win.Ĭombining exhilarating sports writing and exceptional storytelling, Dust Bowl Girls takes readers on the Cardinals’ intense, improbable journey all the way to an epic showdown with the prevailing national champions, helmed by the legendary Babe Didrikson. And as Babb coached the Cardinals, something extraordinary happened. Traveling from farm to farm near the tiny Oklahoma college where he coached, Babb recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance at a better life: a free college education in exchange for playing on his basketball team, the Cardinals.ĭespite their fears of leaving home and the sacrifices that their families would face, the women joined the team. Like so many others, this charismatic Midwestern basketball coach wanted a reason to have hope. In the early 1930s, during the worst drought and financial depression in American history, Sam Babb began to dream. The Boys in the Boat meets A League of Their Own in this true story of a Depression-era championship women’s team. Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy I loved every minute I spent with these bold, daring women whose remarkable journey is the stuff of American legend. Sociology, Sports & Recreations, Women's Studies, NonfictionĪ thrilling, cinematic story.
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