Women Racquetball Pioneers Steve bo Keeley 9781493517510 Books
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Welcome to a hard-hitting look at the earliest women amateur and professional racquetball champions, with photos from a dozen personal collections and museums dating back into the 1960s. Back before women’s lib freed blindfolded ladies passing surreptitiously through men’s locker rooms onto the back courts of YMCAs and JCCs and onto the ‘Women’s court’. Private racquet clubs were yet a gleam in some man’s eye, and a handful of the largest biceped women vied with men in the Big Four annual tournaments across the nation National Singles and Doubles, and National Invitational Singles and Doubles.
The history of women’s racquetball moves like the Pacific from a bashful lap on the shore to a tempest against sea walls. The initial 60s decade was a doldrums on back courts, when a few frustrated college coeds and girlfriends or wives tagged along to practice and tournaments. In the 1970s, females burst upon the racquetball scene and, indeed, were the primary factor in the sport’s meteoric rise. Where the gals went, the guys followed.
The first women’s divisions were held early in the decade, as draw sheets spread on the walls from the lobby to the first women’s locker rooms. Heads turned and many young champions were produced. In mid-decade, the first sponsored player, Kathy Williams—who graces these pages—finally raked in the cash. Janelle Marriott started the first women’s pro tour… and hits a smashing forehand at mid-book.
The Kickoff shot is the first group photo of the WPRA pros at the Long Island, NY, stop, with their hair styles and fashions of the era. The book proudly features 36 photos with one hundred of the best of the early best of the women players, and I am happy to say that I knew and/or trained nearly all of them from California to Alaska to Maine to Florida. I take responsibility for the story captions marshaled from hundreds of emails, Facebook messages, letters, interviews, and our memories.
The shots, snapped by the early sport’s best photographers, vary from classic portraits of the first national champions—Jan Pasternak and Peggy Steding—through a belly dancer and Playmates of the glitz era of racquetball in the 1970s, and on to the ‘prima donnas’… as the 1980s champions referred to one another. In balance, see actress Lana Wood’s stunning grip at the Greatest Racquetball Show on Earth and an action shot of a forehand-backhand by the Canadian ‘Siamese twin ‘ team—who carried home at least one championship cup.
This is a fun, yet nonetheless scholarly, photoessay. Thirty-six shots of the top guns of early racquetball, and all proceeds go to the US Open. From the gallery of time on these pages, may you bring their winning strokes and ways to your game!
Women Racquetball Pioneers Steve bo Keeley 9781493517510 Books
IF you're a fan of the earliest era of racquetball, and if you like seeing the first ever female national champions, then this book is the cat's meow of racquetball. The author has dug up the sport's first photos of women players from the pioneers' trunks and US Racquetball Museum, and tilled the history books (most of which he wrote) to produce this beautiful photo essay. It's a gem, it's irreplaceable, and it could only have been done by Steve Keeley with the participation of the dozens of pros featured in the book. 36 of the snappiest shots and story captions, plus bios of the world’s sweetest, and toughest, and courageous women amateur and pro champions.Product details
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Women Racquetball Pioneers Steve bo Keeley 9781493517510 Books Reviews
Racquetball has been a true gift in my life, due in no small part to the author, and many of the women in this book.
I'm one of the fortunate ones to be involved in the game beyond my competitive years. I have the privilege of teaching college students at a recreational level. This many years later, it is still delightful to teach a sport where the students can get a good rally going on day one. They laugh & sweat while getting a great workout and a break from their academics. I'm grateful to be able to give back to a sport that not only kept me in physical shape, but taught me so much and brought many wonderful people into my life.
Thanks to Keeley for this little stroll down memory lane. Who else but this author would have taken the time to acknowlege these fine female athletes. Unfortunately, racquetabll was not a sport that allowed for thousands of spectators and television coverage. Otherwise, several of these women would have had successful careers in a sport they loved, and would have become household names. And Keeley would have been there to capture their stories.
During the 1970s, females were stepping into roles that had previously been uncharted territory. Women pioneers were making inroads in the diverse fields of business, health, and politics; but nowhere was the phenomenon more overt than in sport. And no sport illustrated "woman power" like the relatively new sport of racquetball. Easier to initially master than paddleball or tennis, with an enclosed court that made retrieving balls less demanding than the outside sports, racquetball seemed to be made for women of all abilities. Here was a sport that, like women themselves, was undergoing a transformation. All that was necessary for an explosion of female racquetball popularity was a critical mass of role models that could be emulated.
In WOMEN RACQUETBALL PIONEERS, Bo Keeley gives us a first-hand account of those trailblazers of women's racquetball who would become role models for the generations of girls and women who were directly responsible for the fiery growth of racquetball in North America and abroad. Keeley is recognized as racquetball's best writer, but it's not his literary abilities alone that make this an engaging read. In addition to being one of the sport's top players during its heyday, he is also acknowledged as the sport's top early instructor. In both roles he personally knew and/or trained nearly every one of the women pioneers described in the book. This unique perspective helps to make WOMEN RACQUETBALL PIONEERS both an entertaining and historical contribution to racquetball literature.
IF you're a fan of the earliest era of racquetball, and if you like seeing the first ever female national champions, then this book is the cat's meow of racquetball. The author has dug up the sport's first photos of women players from the pioneers' trunks and US Racquetball Museum, and tilled the history books (most of which he wrote) to produce this beautiful photo essay. It's a gem, it's irreplaceable, and it could only have been done by Steve Keeley with the participation of the dozens of pros featured in the book. 36 of the snappiest shots and story captions, plus bios of the world’s sweetest, and toughest, and courageous women amateur and pro champions.
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