My maternal grandmother, Martha Jane Flaherty sits front and center with her teammates on the Michigan Normal University 1908 women's baskeball team. Michigan Normal is now Eastern Michigan University. The uniforms don't look all that comfortable, but the girls, for the most part, seem to be enjoying their trip to the photographer. I never met her. She died in of cancer in 1924. She looks very much like my mother, her namesake Martha Jane. Our loss. She has a kind, loving look on her face. It's no surprise she was captain of the team.