A whole other ball game : [electronic resource] women's literature on women's sport / edited, and with an introduction by Joli Sandoz.

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 Farrarelli -- 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.

Stories, poems and excerpts of novels on women in sports. In one, an Olympic swimmer loses her chance of gold because of split-second inattention, another is a non-aggressive softball match between Amazon Vision and I Am Womon, while a third is on a surprise victory by a hockey team.