169:. The team name came from the red hair of the players, natural in the case of some players such as the Langerman twins, dyed in the case of others, or wigs, as in the case of Hazel Walker. In 1947, the team was traveling 30,000 miles a year, playing 180 games in 38 states. Walker spent three years with the team, but in 1949 decided to form her own team, Hazel Walker's Arkansas Travelers, becoming the first woman to own a professional basketball team. The team averaged 220 games a season, winning over 80% of their games (September to May) from 1949-1965. They played only men's teams under men's rules, traveling from town to town in a nine-passenger DeSoto Suburban.
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457:"Best Woman Athlete by Birth State"
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487:Shattering the glass
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529:. Greenwood Press.
438:on January 24, 2001
161:Professional career
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498:978-1-56584-822-1
173:Awards and honors
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