Agnes Louise Baldwin Webb (March 24, 1926 – June 7, 2001) was an American

women's basketball Women's basketball is the team sport of basketball played by women. It began being played in 1892, one year after men's basketball, at Smith College in Massachusetts. It spread across the United States, in large part via women's college compet ...

player, who played on the first

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. Baldwin played basketball at

Nashville Business College John L. Head (July 22, 1915 – May 8, 1980) was an American basketball coach. He was the head coach of the Nashville Business College women's basketball team from 1948 to 1969. Over the course of 21 seasons, his teams won the national champi ...

, which was a perennial powerhouse in the

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. Baldwin was part of the national team which won the first women's world basketball championship. Webb died on June 7, 2001, at the age of 75.

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