Daddy was a basketball coach in small Oklahoma high schools. He coached boys and girls. He also taught five classes of history, swept out the locker rooms, drove the bus for away-team games, and sang solos at school assemblies.
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Girls played half-court basketball in those days — guards on one end of the court; forwards, on the other. It was assumed that women were not strong enough to run full-court.
Some of my earliest memories are of riding the away-team bus, with our Mother, and of sitting on the bleacher behind the team bench. Some of my most important life lessons were learned there.
