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The Fast Track: Inside the Surging Business of Women's Sports

“No one cares about women’s sports” is a familiar refrain from vocal skeptics, but as The Fact Track shows, a series of watershed moments reflect the increasing popularity of and support for women’s sports from both investors and fans.

Veteran sports journalist and academic Jane McManus examines both this upward trend and the forces that have held women’s sports back since the early 1970s when Title IX became law (and Billie Jean King soundly defeated Bobby Riggs). As the fervor for Caitlin Clark during the 2024 NCAA Women’s Basketball champi... READ MORE

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All In: An Autobiography

Billie Jean King

Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson

Sally H. Jacobs

Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women

Maggie Mertens

Big Book of WHO Women in Sports

Sports Illustrated Kids

Breaking the Ice: The True Story of the First Woman to Play in the National Hockey League

Angie Bullaro

Caitlin Clark: Raising the Game

The Athletic

Changing the Game: Asian Pacific American Female Athletes

Mia WenJen

Coming Home

Brittney Griner

Dear Black Girls: How to Be True to You

A'ja Wilson

Game Changers: The Unsung Heroines of Sports History

Molly Schiot

Girls Don't Play Sport: The game-changing, defiant rise of women's sport, and why it matters

Chloe Dalton

Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World

Lauren Fleshman

Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League

Frankie de la Cretaz & Lyndsey D'Arcangelo

I'm That Girl: Living the Power of My Dreams

Jordan Chiles

Ice in Their Veins: Women’s Relentless Pursuit of the Puck

Ian Kennedy

Just Add Water: My Swimming Life

Katie Ledecky

Legends of Women's Gymnastics

Andrea Joyce

Money, Power, Respect: How Women in Sports Are Shaping the Future of Feminism

Macaela MacKenzie

My Greatest Save: The Brave, Barrier-Breaking Journey of a World Champion Goalkeeper

Briana Scurry

Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice

Author Ben Rothenberg

On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports

Christine Brennan

One Life

Megan Rapinoe

Our Fight: a Memoir

Ronda Rousey

Out at the Plate: The Dot Wilkinson Story

Lynne Ames

Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out

Gracie Gold

Play It Forward

Togethxr, Sue Bird, Alex Morgan

Rise: My Story

Lindsey Vonn

Say Her Name: Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport

Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown

Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women's Basketball

Pamela Grundy & Susan Shackelford

Stand Up and Shout Out: Women’s Fight for Equal Pay, Equal Rights, and Equal Opportunities in Sports

Joan Steidinger

Strive: 8 Steps to Find Your Awesome

Venus Williams

Strong Like a Woman: 100 Game-changing Female Athletes (Sports Illustrated)

Laken Litman

Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water

Vicki Valosik

Swimming Studies

Leanne Shapton

The Balance

Aimee Boorman

The Can-Do Mindset: How to Cultivate Resilience, Follow Your Heart, and Fight for Your Passions

Candace Parker (Release Date 6/3/25)

The Fast Track: Inside the Surging Business of Women's Sports

Jane McManus

The Heart Is the Strongest Muscle: Know Your Why and Take Your Mindset from Great to Unstoppable

Tia Toomey

Uncommon Favor: Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Life Lessons I Learned from All Three

Dawn Staley (Release Date 5/26/25)

Up to Speed: The Groundbreaking Science of Women Athletes

Christine Yu

We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions

Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, Amanda Doyle (Release Date 5/6/25)

What's the Score?: 25 Years of Teaching Women's Sports History

Bonnie J. Morris

Women in Football: Past, Present and Future: Breaking Barriers and Shaping the Game: Women's Evolving Role in American Football

Theresa Smith

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