Game Changers
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Game Changers

The Unsung Heroines of Sports History

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Game Changers

The Unsung Heroines of Sports History

About this book

“The embrace of women’s sports sometimes feels almost like a political act...Molly Schiot’s Game Changers: The Unsung Heroines of Sports History is so valuable.” —The Wall Street Journal

“A thoughtful, exhaustively researched, and long-overdue tribute to the women who have paved the way for the likes of Serena Williams, Abby Wambach, Simone Biles, and more.” —espnW

Based on the Instagram account @TheUnsungHeroines, a celebration of the pioneering, forgotten female athletes of the twentieth century that features rarely seen photos and new interviews with past and present game changers including Abby Wambach and Cari Champion.

Two years ago, filmmaker Molly Schiot began the Instagram account @TheUnsungHeroines, posting a photo each day of a female athlete who had changed the face of sports around the globe in the pre-Title IX age. These women paved the way for Serena Williams, Carli Lloyd, and Lindsey Vonn, yet few today know who they are. Slowly but surely, the account gained a following, and the result is Game Changers, a beautifully illustrated collection of these trailblazers’ rarely-before-seen photos and stories.

Featuring icons Althea Gibson and Wyomia Tyus, complete unknowns Trudy Beck and Conchita Cintron, policymaker Margaret Dunkle, sportswriter Lisa Olson, and many more, Game Changers gives these “founding mothers” the attention and recognition they deserve, and features critical conversations between past and present gamechangers—including former US Women’s National Soccer Team captain Abby Wambach and SportsCenter anchor Cari Champion—about what it means to be a woman on and off the field. Inspiring, empowering, and unforgettable, Game Changers is the perfect gift for anyone who has a love of the game.

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Information

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781501137105
eBook ISBN
9781501137112
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Women in History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. Authorā€™s Note
  5. Alice Marble
  6. Alice Coachman
  7. 1964 Japanese Volleyball Team
  8. Anita Defrantz
  9. Alison Jane Hargreaves
  10. Althea Gibson
  11. All American Red Heads
  12. Abby Hoffman
  13. Anke-Eve Goldmann
  14. Annie Smith Peck
  15. Betty Cook
  16. Alfreda Jackson, Ruth Harris, Clementine Redmond, and Lillian Hardy
  17. The Bakersfield Junior College Womenā€™s Swim Team
  18. Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  19. Arlene Blum
  20. Bernice Gera
  21. Billie Jean King and the Battle of the Sexes
  22. AnnMaria De Mars
  23. Andrea Jaeger
  24. Barbara Polk Washburn
  25. Ann Koger
  26. Betty Robinson
  27. Briana Scurry
  28. Bernice Sandler
  29. Margaret Dunkle and Abby Wambach in Conversation
  30. Carol Rose and Theresa Sams
  31. Christy Martin
  32. Chris Von Saltza
  33. Conchita CintrĆ³n
  34. Members of the 1984 Cuban National Womenā€™s Basketball Team
  35. Diane Crump
  36. Gabriela Andersen-Schiess
  37. ā€˜Chicago Daily Defenderā€™ 17th Annual Individual Handicap Bowling Tournament of 1965
  38. Denise McCluggage
  39. Kathrine Switzer
  40. Constance Applebee
  41. Kathryn ā€œKathyā€ Kusner
  42. Gertrude Ederle
  43. Gladys Heldman
  44. Debi Thomas
  45. Diana Nyad
  46. Dick, Kerrā€™s Ladies FC
  47. Kay Yow
  48. Margaret Degidio ā€œDigitā€ Murphy
  49. Cathy Rush/Immaculata College
  50. Edith Houghton
  51. Isabel Letham
  52. Earlene Brown
  53. Enriqueta Basilio
  54. Junko Tabei
  55. Donna de Varona
  56. Janet Guthrie
  57. Edith Green
  58. Dorothy Wise
  59. Joyce Walker
  60. Jutta Kleinschmidt
  61. Emma Gatewood
  62. Keiko Fukuda
  63. Kim Gilbert
  64. Elspeth Beard
  65. Laura Thornhill and Lacey Baker in Conversation
  66. Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  67. Kim and Sylvia Green
  68. Kitty Oā€™Neil
  69. Eleanor Holm Jarrett
  70. Florence Arthaud
  71. Melissa Ludtke
  72. Fanny Bullock Workman
  73. Margaret McGregor
  74. Helme Suuk
  75. Florence Leontine ā€œPanchoā€ Barnes
  76. Lynn Hill
  77. Joan Whitney Payson
  78. Jackie Tonawanda
  79. Korean Deep Sea Divers
  80. Janet Collins
  81. Margo Oberg
  82. Gretchen Fraser
  83. Miriam ā€œLady Tygerā€ Trimiar
  84. Joan Weston
  85. Lisa Olson
  86. Robyn Smith, Barbara Ader, and Brenda Wilson
  87. Jean Balukas
  88. Joe Carstairs
  89. Eunice Kennedy Shriver
  90. Nawal El Moutawakel
  91. Lavonne ā€œPepperā€ Paire-Davis
  92. Manon RhƩaume
  93. Kinue Hitomi
  94. Cari Champion and Pam Oliver in Conversation
  95. Mary McGee
  96. Surya Bonaly
  97. Lorraine Williams
  98. Louise Stokes and Tidye Pickett
  99. Molly Bolin Kazmer
  100. Neroli Fairhall
  101. Marilyn Neufville
  102. Peggy Oki
  103. Nan Aspinwall
  104. Marilyn Bell
  105. Susan Butcher
  106. RenƩe Richards
  107. Libby Riddles
  108. Shirley Muldowney
  109. Linda Jefferson
  110. Nurses Softball Team
  111. Nadia Comaneci
  112. Ora Washington
  113. Sheryl Swoopes / Nike Air Swoopes
  114. Pat Laursen
  115. Olga Korbut
  116. Pat Summitt
  117. Patti McGee
  118. ā€˜womenSportsā€™ Magazine
  119. Ruberta Mitchell
  120. Zola Budd
  121. Shawna Robinson
  122. Stella Walsh
  123. Wilma Rudolph
  124. Toni Stone
  125. Trudy Beck
  126. Maribel Owen, Laurence Owen, Maribel Vinson-Owen
  127. Penny Pitou
  128. Shirley and Sharon Firth
  129. Wyomia Tyus
  130. Rica Reinisch
  131. Robin Herman
  132. Tennessee Tigerbelles
  133. Wayland Baptist Flying Queens
  134. 1976 Yale Crew Team
  135. Rusty Kanokogi
  136. Violet Palmer
  137. Wake-Robin Golf Club
  138. Kim Cespedes
  139. Rhythm in Orange
  140. Acknowledgments
  141. About Molly Schiot
  142. Notes
  143. Photo Credits
  144. Copyright

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