NY, American Sports Publishing Co., 1910-1911. A volume in Spalding's Athletic Library, this being Group VII, No. 7A, September, 1910, containing The Official Rules for Women's Basketball and edited by Senda Berenson, who introduced the game, adapted for women, to Smith College in the 1890s. Known as the Mother of Women's Basketball, Berenson became the first woman enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame, in 1985. Smith College, whose basketball team reached the Division III Final Four in each of the last two years, recently changed its sports teams' nicknames from "Pioneers" to "Bears" -- in homonymic honor of Berenson. Spalding's Women's Guides were reportedly issued from 1899 to the late 1930s, albeit not always annually. This copy has sustained some prior dampening, resulting in partial adhesion of the front cover to the first page; there is some loss to the spine; a good copy. Rare. [#036607] $1,500