Making Waves: My Journey to Winning Olympic Gold and Defeating the East German Doping Program (signed)

Solana Beach, California: Santa Monica Press, 2016. PERFECT CONDITION. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by Olympic champion Shirley Babashoff directly on the title page. Laid in is a ticket to the 2016 Olympic Swimming Trials, Omaha, Nebraska, which Shirley Babashoff has also signed (her signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). There is another largely illegible autograph on the title page, possibly co-author Chris Epting. BRAND NEW in a BRAND NEW dust jacket. PERFECT CONDITION. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NO fading. NOT price clipped ($24.95). Sharp corners. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked - obviously never read. Bound in the original gilt stamped blue boards. Foreword by Donna de Varona. From the pristine dust jacket: "In her extraordinary swimming career, Shirley Babashoff set thirty-nine national records and eleven world records. Prior to the 1990s, she was the most successful U.S. female Olympian and, in her prime, was widely considered to be the greatest female swimmer in the world. Heading into the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Babashoff was pictured on the cover of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and followed closely by the media. Hopes were high that she would become the female Mark Spitz. All of that changed once Babashoff questioned the shocking masculinity of the swimmers on the East German women's team. Once celebrated as America's golden girl, Babashoff was accused of poor sportsmanship and vilified by the press with a new nickname: Surly Shirley. MAKING WAVES displays the remarkable strength and resilience that made Babashoff such a dynamic champion. From her difficult childhood and beginnings as a determined young athlete growing up in Southern California in the 1960s, through her triumphs as the greatest female amateur swimmer in the world, Babashoff tells her story in the same unflinching manner that made her both the most dominant female swimmer of her time and one of the most controversial athletes in Olympic history.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by Shirley Babashoff. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Hardcover. New/New dust jacket. Illus. by with SIGNED Olympic Swimming Trials ticket. 8vo. 272pp. + 32 pages of color photos. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.