{"product_id":"book-djqw","title":"State","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet against a backdrop of social change during the 1970s, \u003ci\u003eState\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling first-person account of what it was like to live through both traditional gender discrimination in sports and the joy of the very first days of equality—or at least the closest that one high school girls’ basketball team ever came to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1975, freshman Melissa Isaacson—along with a group of other girls who’d spent summers with their noses pressed against the fences of Little League ball fields, unable to play—entered Niles West High School in suburban Chicago with one goal: make a team, \u003ci\u003eany\u003c\/i\u003e team. For Missy, that turned out to be the basketball team.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTitle IX had passed just three years earlier, prohibiting gender discrimination in education programs or activities, including athletics. As a result, states like Illinois began implementing varsity competition—and state tournaments—for girls’ high school sports.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the time, Missy and her teammates didn’t really understand the legislation. All they knew was they finally had opportunities—to play, to learn, to sweat, to lose, to win—and an identity: they were athletes. They were a team.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd in 1979, they became state champions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the intimate insights of the girl who lived it, the pacing of a born storyteller, and the painstaking reporting of a veteran sports journalist, Isaacson chronicles one high school team’s journey to the state championship. In doing so, Isaacson shows us how a group of \"tomboys\" found themselves and each other, and how basketball rescued them from their collective frustrations and troubled homes, and forever altered the course of their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49376127353136,"sku":"BDdjqw","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [10]","offer_id":49376127320368,"sku":"10djqw","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/djqw-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773839358","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-djqw","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}