Whatever It Takes: Women on Women's Sport Book

	Introduction	3
	Pulling No Punches (from Kill the Body: The Head Will Fall)	12
	Summer Showdown	22
	Women Play Football	28
	Killer Instinct	30
	Next Game	33
	Never	39
	Remembering Stella Walsh	41
	Awesome Women in Sports	52
	O Promised Land!	61
	Smells Like Team Spirit: Portrait of a Rank Season	62
	They're Pooling Their Power	75
	The Value of Girl's Basket Ball	78
	A Peaches Fan for Life	79
	American Past Time	88
	In Praise of Bush Leagues	89
	Camper of the Year	93
	Recognition	100
	From A Wheel within a Wheel	102
	Grandmothers Nowadays Play	108
	My Mother, My Rival	109
	Of High-tops and Home Plates	113
	Swimming and Writing	118
	Green Afternoons	127
	From Swimming the Channel	137
	MVHS X-Country Team	143
	Privilege	144
	Dawn Staley (from Venus to the Hoop)	146
	I Ching #17 Following (The Discus Thrower)	151
	Dreams on Ice	152
	A Swimming Lesson	156
	The Athletic Girl	160
	Precious Medals	163
	Wheelchair Flying	165
	Baseball is about Playing	167
	From An American Childhood	175
	Sikes Room, Princeton Boathouse	177
	Coming Home	179
	Learning to Swim at Forty-five	195
	Seconds	197
	Sidelines	211
	Turning it Up	218
	Losing Baseball, the 1950s	229
	Memoirs of a Would-Be Swim Champ	230
	Sneakers	243
	Q: Why Do You Want to Race? A: Because My Name Comes Apart	252
	Ernestine Bayer	257
	Solo Shoot (from In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle)	260
	What Goes Around, Comes Around	262
	By Atoms Moved	268
	From "The Revolutionary Bicycle"	269
	Ready, Wrestle	270
	Up for the Count	275
	Tournament-Tough	280
	Longing and Bliss	290
	Bench Press, or Becoming a Girl Again	298
	From Pilgrim at Tinker Creek	306
	Contributors' Notes	309
	Permissions	319
	Acknowledgments	323