The women's sports encyclopedia
By: Robert Markel, executive editor ; Susan Waggoner, managing editor ; Marcella Smith, research and records editor ; foreword by Billie Jean King ; preface by Donna Lopiano.
Contributors: Markel, Robert.; Waggoner, Susan.; Smith, Marcella
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: H. Holt
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Sports for women -- History; Sports for women -- Records; Women athletes -- Biography
Description: Includes a history of women's participation in sports; biographies of past and present international athletes; annotated charts of world and Olympic records; and a chronological time line of women's sports from 500 B.C. to the present.
Notes: Includes index.