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Welcome to a hard-hitting look at the earliest women amateur and professional racquetball champions, with photos from a dozen personal collections and museums dating back into the 1960s. Back before women’s lib freed blindfolded ladies passing surreptitiously through men’s locker rooms onto the back courts of YMCAs and JCCs and onto the ‘Women’s court’. Private racquet clubs were yet a gleam in some man’s eye, and a handful of the largest biceped women vied with men in the Big Four annual tournaments across the nation: National Singles and Doubles, and National Invitational Singles and Doubles.
The history of women’s racquetball moves like the Pacific from a bashful lap on the shore to a tempest against sea walls. The initial 60s decade was a doldrums on back courts, when a few frustrated college coeds and girlfriends or wives tagged along to practice and tournaments. In the 1970s, females burst upon the racquetball scene and, indeed, were the primary factor in
