By james art 
When Eileen was simply a sixth -grader in Rapidan in the 20s, she played as a substitute for the high school girls’ basketball team. By the time she was a freshman, she was a star.
Kate Roberts, a senior exhibitor in the historic center in Minnesota in St. Paul, said: “Word came out, it was this fantastic player. She scored 410 points in 366 minutes of play. The media called her a point-minuta, which I really love. “
Just is presented in an exhibition of a historic center called “Girlhaood (this is complicated)”. The traveling Smithsonian exhibition landed at the historic center last fall and the employees there decided to add what is called a connected exhibit for basketball for girls in Minnesota. Roberts said visitors diverge with the history of sports and understanding how important basketball was for girls over the last century.
Rapidan Township allocated the materials for the historical center related to Just and its basketball career in high school, including a photo of her basketball, which says 28 for 1928. It was just a sophomore at the time the photo was taken. He was scattered throughout the country, said Jane Haala, a local historian who is an expert.
Dorothy McIntyre, another historian who co -authored the Basketball Book for Girls, said he just showed her confident side of the famous photo where she pulled her flowering over one knee at a time when flowering had to fall below the knee for female ballerie S
Roberts agrees to McIntyre, saying, “It’s cheeky. I firmly believe – well, we have no way of knowing – but I firmly believe that she makes a statement there. “
However, she just knew he was shy. She was so restrained that her daughter Jenel Thal said she had received her more information about her mother’s basketball days from her uncle Richard.
“I talked to him about Mom and their years of growth, and he is quite good the one from whom I received my information,” she said. “Her silence and restraint were not abnormal.”
When Toll was her mother in her basketball hall of fame in Minnesota, she found other people who had experienced “the same thing,” she said. “That’s why we didn’t know much about it. I know she played basketball intensively with her brothers. “
He was just a good athlete everywhere, Toll said.
“She was good at everything. I called her my gold mom. “
After the newspapers presented it with just now, she received a fan mail from all over the country, Toll said.
“People from Washington, Colombia County,” Mom wrote, “she said. “She received letters from all over, so she was recognized. She was also invited at the end of her career to be in the Reds. They were a professional basketball team that was touring the country. She was invited, but her mind was put in her career, so she went to the University of Minnesota to be an enlargement agent. “
Toll was present at the discovery of the “girl’s” exhibit of the story, but did not see it.
“I couldn’t see the exhibit because I was talking to the people about my mom,” she said. “It was crazy. I couldn’t believe the excitement of it. She had no idea how gifted she was, but that made her so great. She was so humble about it. Although she is gone, she continues to pop up. It’s really cool. “Her mother died in 2002.
He was just playing a center during his basketball career in Rapidan from the 1920s and would compete with today’s basketball star Caitlin Clark when it came to her abilities, experts say. And Justletism of Just has not been pulled away.
“She left inheritance,” her daughter said. “My granddaughter is the best in basketball. She is only 12 years old, but she has a great promise. So we’ll see what happens. “
The historic center of Minnesota “Girlhaood (this is complicated)” works in June 1st.