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At the elevation of the Great Depressive disorder, Sam Babb, the charismatic hockey coach of small Oklahoma Presbyterian College, began thinking. Like so many others, he wanted grounds to have hope. Traveling from plantation to plantation, he recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance at a much better life: a free of charge college education if indeed they would come play for his hockey team, the Cardinals. Despite their doubts of leaving home and the sacrifices faced by their families, the women adopted Babb and his aspiration. He shaped the Cardinals into a formidable team, then one extraordinary began to occur: With enthusiasm for the sport and heartfelt loyalty to one another and their coach, they earned every game. For author Lydia Reeder, this is a family story: Discipline Sam Babb is her great-uncle. When her grandmother handed her a worn, yellowed folder that comprised newspaper articles, words, and photographs of Sam and the Cardinals, she said, "You might like to tell their report someday." Now, with considerable research and the accumulated recollections of the making it through Cardinals, she has.
