Shooting Hoops In The In The Great Depression “Dust Bowl”

Click below to link to an NPR piece on women's basketball in Oklahoma in the Great Depression 1930s: 

http://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2017/03/03/dust-bowl-girls-lydia-reeder-book

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Winthrop Steele comment:

Usually, according to site moderator Peter Paul Markin, this space deals with hard-core history and politics and he can only remember a couple of occasions when sports, you know football, baseball, basketball, golf and such, have invaded this blog. Once when he personally had gone off the deep end and spent one college football season commenting on the weekly AP Top Twenty-Five and again a couple of years ago when Lance Lawrence went on and on about golf. Not professional golf, or low handicap golf, but the doings of he and his golf buddies high handicap golf. (For those not in the know “handicap” in golf means how many strokes off of par on average one person in against another so that there is a “level playing field.”)                      

That said, I am commenting today on the subject of the link above-women’s basketball out in Oklahoma in the 1930s, out in the “dust bowl.” Now usually when I think of Oklahoma in the 1930s I think about Woody Guthrie, a son of Oklahoma, and his dust bowl ballads, mostly about the “Okies” heading out further west, especially to Garden of Eden California. Or I think literature and of course about John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath   and Tom Joad and Preacher Jack which took place at that same time. So add this piece from NPR “sports” about women out in the dust bowl who had game, who could go to the hoop and lived to talk about it.