Theirs is a heartening report, rendered textured and real by the many individual voices g athered here. Less tangibly, but no less significantly, sports help build self-esteem, fostering independence, teaching leadership and teamwork, and providing powerful role models. It weighs the values of coed vs. single-sex team sports. It looks at how extreme sports have become viable alternatives to the more traditional basketball, softball, soccer, gymnastics, etc. It examines the role of parents, and ends with a compr ehensive bibliography and resource list of useful organizations and contacts throughout the United States.
Daughters deserve nothing less.
This dynamic anthology documents the athletic achievements of female athletes during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Athletic pioneers and superstars are given their due in articles that trace the historical and cultural significance of such memorable events as Billi e Jean King's triumphant tennis match with Bobby Riggs, Florence Griffith Joyner's record-breaking four medals at the 1988 Olympics, and ice skater Tonya Harding's fall from grace. Immensely readable, this deserves a spot in all sports collections. To include 50 photographs and a time l ine. Now imagine them casting their considerable literary prowess into the sporting ring.