The growth of women\u2019s sports hasn\u2019t \u2013 yet \u2013 been matched by a real growth in the number of sports books by, about and for women.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s Joe Layden\u2019s \u201cWomen in Sports: The Complete Book on the World’s Greatest Female Athletes<\/a>\u201d. And once again we go to Goodreads for a list of\u00a0 \u2018Women in sports<\/a>\u2019 books.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll quote from one piece from one book, \u201cNike is a Goddess.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c…from Gertrude Ederle’s historic swim across the English Channel to Billie Jean King’s victory over Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes, Nike Is a Goddess tells the inspiring stories of women opening up an arena that had been closed to them. Nike Is a Goddess pays tribute to the athletes who led the way and serves as inspiration to those who will come after.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The growth of women\u2019s sports hasn\u2019t \u2013 yet \u2013 been matched by a real growth in the number of sports books by, about and for women. Here\u2019s Joe Layden\u2019s \u201cWomen in Sports: The Complete Book on the World’s Greatest Female Athletes\u201d. And once again we go to Goodreads for a list of\u00a0 \u2018Women in sports\u2019 … Continue reading “Women\u2019s Sports”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-themes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}