Format:
Book
Title:
A whole other ball game : women's literature on women's sport / edited and with an introduction by Joli Sandoz.
Call Number:
810.8 Whole
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Noonday Press, c1997.
Description:
ix, 323 p. ; 21 cm.
Subjects:
Women athletes -- United States -- Literary collections.
Sports for women -- Literary collections.
American literature -- Women authors.
American literature -- 20th century.
Other Author:
Sandoz, Joli, 1952-
Contents:
The Springboard / Adrienne Rich -- Introduction / Joli Sandoz -- Raymond's Run / Toni Cade Bambara -- 74th Street / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Posting-Up / Stephanie Grant -- Poem for My Youth/Poem for Young Women / Eloise Klein Healy -- From Lady Lobo / Kristen Garrett -- Sports Field / Judith Wright -- From All The Way Home / Ellen Cooney -- Morning Athletes / Marge Piercy -- Competition / Mariah Burton Nelson -- October 1968, Mexico City (From Aquamarine) / Carol Anshaw -- From "Candy Butcher" / Fannie Hurst -- The Lady Pitcher / Cynthia MacDonald -- Revenge / Ellen Gilchrist -- To Throw Like a Boy / Nancy Boutilier -- When I Am 98 / Carolyn Kremers -- Atalanta in Cape Fair / Jessie Rehder -- Women's Tug of War at Lough Arrow / Tess Gallagher -- Wet / Laurie Colwin -- From Water Dancer / Jenifer Levin -- Joan Benoit: 1984 Olympic Marathon Gold Medalist / Rina Ferrarelli -- The Loveliness of the Long-Distance Runner / Sara Maitland -- To Swim, To Believe / Maxine Kumin -- Teamwork / Lucy Jane Bledsoe -- From "First Peace" / Barbara Lamblin -- Sweat / Lucy Jane Bledsoe -- Diamonds, Dykes, and Double Plays / Pat Griffin -- A Night Game in Menomonie Park / Susan Firer -- From In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson / Bette Bao Lord -- Lindy Lowe at Bat / Rebecca Rule -- Double Play / Eloise Klein Healy -- From In Shelly's Leg / Sara Vogan -- Hotshot / Nancy Boutilier -- Most Valuable Player / Sarah Van Arsdale -- A Golf Lullaby / Margaret Barbour -- Two Champions in the Family / Elizabeth Corbett -- The Pregnant Lady Playing Tennis / Karen Volkman -- Scotti Scores / Jane Gilliland -- Skating After School / Barbara Crooker -- Revenge / Abbe Carter Goodloe -- Her Marathon / Jenifer Levin.
ISBN:
0374525218 (pbk. : alk. paper)