Women's Hoops Blog

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Thanks to Stever, who finds an article about the soon to be inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Famer, Ora Mae Washington:

Her name had a certain buoyant lilt to it.

Ora.

Ora Mae.

Ora Mae Washington.

The finest athlete you never heard of.

In the opinion of those who were there to see her and to those to whom tales of her deeds were passed on, she was, and remains, the greatest black female athlete ever.