Wnba: A Celebration

by Kelly Whiteside

Book Overview

For sports fans of all ages comes the ultimate collectible that commemorates the smash-hit debut year for the WNBA The WNBA's inaugural season was the most successful debut by a league in professional sports history. More than 50 million fans turned in to watch games on NBC, ESPN, and Lifetime. The league averaged nearly 10,000 fans per game after projecting only 4,500 before the season began. The success was nothing short of astounding, and now the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061073024
• ISBN13: 9780061073021
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.0" x 12.1"

Customer Reviews

This book scores with fans

After decades of attempting to promote women's sports, the first successful women's professional basketball league was launched in 1997. Spurned on in part by the successful performance of the women's basketball team at the 1996 summer games, the WNBA was explicitly positioned as the fulfillment of Title IX and something that everybody (women and men) should become a supporter of. The Women's National Basketball Association succeeded because it had media visibility, could generate money to do additional promotion of the teams, and WNBA teams received separate names from their male counterparts. This reinforced the idea that these women are professional athletes. I have been a devoted fan ever since that historic first season. I especially loved that my Comets were the first league champions (a title which they held until recently). Because so many other people had placed bets on New York (which at least in the 1970's was an epicenter for women's rights) having Houston lead the way in professional women's sports was a nice surprise. There has been some reshuffling of the teams (Utah, Cleveland, and Miami's teams have transferred cities or folded all together). However this league is surpassing the expectations of people who assumed that the WNBA would not last. We have shown the doubters that women's professional basketball is here to stay in America. Although there are salary (the players in this league are paid low for professional athlete standards) and financial issues (the WNBA has yet to make a profit as defined in business terms) the WNBA scores lots of points in my book.

WNBA : A Celebration : Commemorating the Birth of a League

This is an great book, greatest book made about the WNBA thats for sure. I really dont enjoy reading books much but just by reading this book made me want to read alot of other books. This book tells you about the WNBA all you need to know and want to know, this book has it. It starts out with how it all started to making it work to the rules to what they want for the future of the WNBA. It also tell you a little about some players. Also it tells you some of the greatest woman players that ever thouched the ball. GREATEST BOOK EVER MADE ABOUT THE WNBA!

Really Great WNBA Book

This is a really wonderful pictorial book about the WNBA!! It has many worderful color photos. I also has photos you probably couldn't get anywhere else!!! It includes sketches for the uniforms, many publicity photos and a wonderful text!!!It truly is a Celebration of the WNBA!!!!!!!

This book really tells the story of the WNBA's first season.

This is an excellent book for all those WNBA fans out there-it describes the league's inagural season in outstanding fashion. It also gives hope to all those kids out there who dream of becoming professional basketball players.

I THINK THIS BOOK REALLY TELLS HOW GREAT THE WNBA IS

I THINK THIS BOOK SHOWED HOW MUCH WE REALLY NEEDED THE WNBA.THE BOOK TELLS IN A WAY THAT LITTLE GIRLS CAN STILL DREAM BIG....AND THAT IT CAN COME TRUE.