"A heartfelt, informative, and thoroughly engaging picture book
biography." --School Library Journal (starred review)
From beloved author Sue Macy comes an illustrated biography of Mary
Garber, one of the first female sports journalists in American
history!
Mary Garber was a pioneering sports journalist in a time where women
were rarely a part of the newspaper business. Women weren't even allowed
to sit in the press boxes at sporting events, so Mary was forced to sit
with the coaches' wives. But that didn't stop her.
In a time when African American sports were not routinely covered, Mary
went to the games and wrote about them. Garber was a sportswriter for
fifty-six years and was the first woman to receive the Associated Press
Sports Editors' Red Smith Award, presented for major contributions in
sports journalism. And now, every year the Association of Women in
Sports Media presents the Mary Garber Pioneer Award in her honor to a
role model for women in sports media.