A Whole Other Ball Game

By: Sandoz, Joli

A literary first, A Whole Other Ball Game deals with all aspects of women's competitive sports, from the thrill of winning before hometown fans to the interpersonal dynamics on a team.

Since the late 1800s, women have repeatedly proven their fitness for competitive sport...simply by playing the game. Any game. Off-court and on; despite all opposition. This engaging collection of short stories, poems, and novel excerpts tells the exciting story of women's sports from the sportswoman's own point of view.

Joli Sandoz has played, coached, and written about competitive athletics since her first plunge from the starting blocks in 1961. Her sporting credits include working as the first woman track coach at Harvard.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374525218
• ISBN13: 9780374525217
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The funniest, saddest, most moving collection of sportswrite

I recently selected this book for use in a new course I am teaching on sportswriting at the University of California, San Diego. When I went searching for a good example of sportswriting to counterbalance the many offerings by men, I was not encourage by the very small number of titles by women. This book astonished me in its variety and quality of contributions, AND it is fiction, which makes it all the more exiciting to read. Very personal, very gritty, very real. Read this book!