Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary

Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber

â€œA lively, memorable biography for younger readers.â€ â€”Booklist (starred review)

â€œA reminder of the value of telling peopleâ€™s stories, whether pro player or soapbox racer.â€ â€”Publishers Weekly (starred review)

â€œA heartfelt, informative, and thoroughly engaging picture book biography.â€ â€”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!

While sitting in the bleachers of a Soap Box Derby in the 1950s, Mary Garber overheard two African-American boys in the following exchange: â€œSee that lady down there?â€ asked one boy. â€œThatâ€™s Mary Garber. She doesnâ€™t care who you are, but if you do something good, sheâ€™ll write about you.â€

Mary Garber was a pioneering sports journalist in a time where women were rarely a part of the newspaper business. Women werenâ€™t even allowed to sit in the press boxes at sporting events, so Mary was forced to sit with the coachesâ€™ wives. But that didnâ€™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 Editorsâ€™ 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.

Sure to inspire future journalists, athletes, and any child who has a dream, this illustrated biography of Mary Garber captures her feisty and determined spirit and brings her story to life.

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	illustrations
ReleaseDate	2016-02-16
UnitCount	1
Format	Picture Book
EANs	9781481401203

Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber

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