State: A Team, A Triumph, A Transformation

Set against a backdrop of social change during the 1970s, State 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.

In 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-...