Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Longstanding Prejudices -- Making Inroads: Sports Appropriate for "Ladies" -- Bicycles and Bloomers -- Testing New Limits -- Minority Women Break Barriers -- Trailblazers -- The Struggle for Olympic Glory -- Toward Recognition and Equal Pay -- New Role Models -- Recent Trends and Issues -- Notes -- A -- Aarons, Ruth Hughes (b. 1915) -- Abbott, Margaret (18788211;1955) -- Ackerman, Phyllis (b. 1940) -- Adamek, Donna (b. 1957) -- Aerial Sports -- Aerobatics -- Aerobics -- Air Derby, Women's -- Akers-Stahl, Michelle ( See Soccer World Championship, Women's ) -- Albright, Tenley (b. 1935) -- Alcott, Amy (b. 1956) -- All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) -- All-American Red Heads ( See Basketball ) -- All-American Soap Box Derby -- All-American World's Champion Girls Basketball Club -- Allerdice, Ellen Hansell ( See Hansell, Ellen ) -- Allison, Stacy ( See Mountain Climbing ) -- Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) -- Amateur Softball Association (ASA) -- Amateur Status -- America 3 (America Cubed) -- American Alpine Club ( See Peck, Annie Smith ) -- American Amateur Bowling League (AABL) ( See Bowling ) -- American Bowling Congress (ABC) -- American Horse Show Association (AHSA) -- American Tennis Association (ATA) -- America's Cup -- Anders, Beth (b. 1951) -- Anderson, Jodi (b. 1957) -- Anderton, Carol ( See Bowling ) -- Angelakis, Jana ( See Fencing ) -- Annual Empire State Building Run-Up -- Anorexia Nervosa ( See Eating Disorders ) -- Applebee, Constance (18748211;1981) -- Aquacades -- Archery -- Arendsen, Kathy ( See Softball ) -- Arlington, Lizzie ( See Baseball ) -- Armstrong, Deborah (b. 1963) -- Ashford, Evelyn (b. 1957) -- Ashworth, Jeanne ( See Speed Skating ) -- Aspinall, Nan Jane -- Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) -- Athlete of the Year -- Austin, Tracy (b. 1962) -- Automobile Racing ( See Racing, Auto ) -- B -- Babashoff, Shirley (b. 1957) -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias Trophy -- Babilonia, Tai (b. 1960) -- Backhand, Two-Handed -- Bacon, Mabel ( See Powerboating ) -- Bacon, Mary (19508211;1991) -- Badminton -- Ball Boy/Girl -- Ballooning ( See Aerial Sports ) -- Balukas, Jean ( See Billiards ) -- Bancroft, Ann (b. 1955) -- Bancroft, Jessie Hubbell (18678211;1952) -- Baseball -- Baseball Hall of Fame ( See National Baseball Hall of Fame ) -- Basketball -- Battle of the Sexes -- Baugh, Laura (b. 1955) -- Belote, Melissa (b. 1956) -- Benjamin Briscoe Trophy ( See Motoring Club, Women's ) -- Benoit Samuelson, Joan (b. 1957) -- Berenson, Senda (18688211;1954) -- Berg, Patricia Ann (b. 1918) -- Betz, Pauline (b. 1919) -- Bhushan, Insook (b. 1952) -- Biathlon -- Bicycle Racing ( See Cycling ) -- Billiards -- Black (Bonfils), Winifred Sweet (18638211;1936) -- Blair, Bonnie Kathleen (b. 1964) -- Blalock, Jane (b. 1945) -- Blazejowski, Carol "Blaze" (b. 1956) -- Bleibtrey, Ethelda (19028211;1978) -- Bloomer, Am