I sent a reply to the question about this league back on July 2, it never went through, I pulled it up from my sent file today, and then it vanished when I tried to resend it, so here is an abbreviated reply. Daniel, if your grandmother is talking about when she was a young person ca. 1910-1930, then I suspect the women she entertained in her home were part of a women's college "league," traveling around playing at each others' colleges. I find no record of something official, separate from college games, during that time period for women. The first national league I know of was documented by the movie A LEAGUE OF OUR OWN, time frame WWII, beginning 1943 when so many American men were drafted that men's leagues were decimated. We were not in WWI long enough for that to be a problem. Women's basketball was very popular all over America in the 1930s-1950s (according to the mothers of many Southern women I knew in Women's Liberation during the 60s and 70s). That professional league, mostly in the mid-west, lasted until the early 1950s when women were again "persuaded" to stay home if their husbands made enough money to keep them there. We support the Dream basketball team here in Atlanta and hope you all have such professional teams in your area. -- Elizabeth

Grandmother called Nana born March 1893 said that this was in response to the men fighting the WW1 being gone she worked and and didn't go to college but was a graduate of a business college in bookkeeping. She was really good with numbers. So no it wasn't college type and she said professional. Quoting Elizabeth Knowlton <knowltonew@earthlink.net>: > I sent a reply to the question about this league back on July 2, it > never went through, I pulled it up from my sent file today, and then > it vanished when I tried to resend it, so here is an abbreviated > reply. Daniel, if your grandmother is talking about when she was a > young person ca. 1910-1930, then I suspect the women she entertained > in her home were part of a women's college "league," traveling > around playing at each others' colleges. I find no record of > something official, separate from college games, during that time > period for women. > The first national league I know of was documented by the movie > A LEAGUE OF OUR OWN, time frame WWII, beginning 1943 when so many > American men were drafted that men's leagues were decimated. We > were not in WWI long enough for that to be a problem. Women's > basketball was very popular all over America in the 1930s-1950s > (according to the mothers of many Southern women I knew in Women's > Liberation during the 60s and 70s). That professional league, > mostly in the mid-west, lasted until the early 1950s when women were > again "persuaded" to stay home if their husbands made enough money > to keep them there. > We support the Dream basketball team here in Atlanta and hope > you all have such professional teams in your area. > -- > Elizabeth > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYC-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

"Professional" meaning the closest women could get to it. There was no real association for women. -----Original Message----- From: daniel_lewis_frommherz <daniel_lewis_frommherz@mckenzievalleymarket.com> Grandmother called Nana born March 1893 said that this was in response to the men fighting the WW1 being gone she worked and and didn't go to college but was a graduate of a business college in bookkeeping. She was really good with numbers. So no it wasn't college type and she said professional.

#1 we don''t know. Not being snobby but NY/NYC is not like any Southern town, ot most other towns. Google "Joy Malchodi + "basketball" Read about her coaching. I played with her 1960-1966. WE were NY Archdiocesan Champs 2 yrs. That's Archdiocese of NY, meaning... "It encompasses the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island in New York City and the Counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester in New York." 10 counties...We were the champions. Play offs at Cardinal Hayes H.S. -----Original Message----- From: Elizabeth Knowlton <knowltonew@earthlink.net> To: nyc-roots <nyc-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tue, Jul 4, 2017 10:52 am Subject: [NYC-ROOTS] Women's Basketball League I sent a reply to the question about this league back on July 2, it never went through, I pulled it up from my sent file today, and then it vanished when I tried to resend it, so here is an abbreviated reply. Daniel, if your grandmother is talking about when she was a young person ca. 1910-1930, then I suspect the women she entertained in her home were part of a women's college "league," traveling around playing at each others' colleges. I find no record of something official, separate from college games, during that time period for women. The first national league I know of was documented by the movie A LEAGUE OF OUR OWN, time frame WWII, beginning 1943 when so many American men were drafted that men's leagues were decimated. We were not in WWI long enough for that to be a problem. Women's basketball was very popular all over America in the 1930s-1950s (according to the mothers of many Southern women I knew in Women's Liberation during the 60s and 70s). That professional league, mostly in the mid-west, lasted until the early 1950s when women were again "persuaded" to stay home if their husbands made enough money to keep them there. We support the Dream basketball team here in Atlanta and hope you all have such professional teams in your area. -- Elizabeth ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYC-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

That's baseball. Basketball was another story. LEAGUE OF OUR OWN -----Original Message----- From: Elizabeth Knowlton <knowltonew@earthlink.net> To: nyc-roots <nyc-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tue, Jul 4, 2017 10:52 am Subject: [NYC-ROOTS] Women's Basketball League I sent a reply to the question about this league back on July 2, it never went through, I pulled it up from my sent file today, and then it vanished when I tried to resend it, so here is an abbreviated reply. Daniel, if your grandmother is talking about when she was a young person ca. 1910-1930, then I suspect the women she entertained in her home were part of a women's college "league," traveling around playing at each others' colleges. I find no record of something official, separate from college games, during that time period for women. The first national league I know of was documented by the movie A LEAGUE OF OUR OWN, time frame WWII, beginning 1943 when so many American men were drafted that men's leagues were decimated. We were not in WWI long enough for that to be a problem. Women's basketball was very popular all over America in the 1930s-1950s (according to the mothers of many Southern women I knew in Women's Liberation during the 60s and 70s). That professional league, mostly in the mid-west, lasted until the early 1950s when women were again "persuaded" to stay home if their husbands made enough money to keep them there. We support the Dream basketball team here in Atlanta and hope you all have such professional teams in your area. -- Elizabeth ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYC-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message