Upcoming Author Events Sidney Thompson will be giving a talk during the Memphis Area Authors’ Festival at 2pm on April 6th, 2024. Join Gail Shaffer Blankenau for Lunch @ the Library on Wednesday, April 4th, at 12:10pm. She will discuss … Continue reading News & Reviews
Rob Goldman is the author of three baseball books, Once They Were Angels, Nolan Ryan: The Making of a Pitcher, and the novel Hauling Time. His book The Sisterhood: The 99ers and the Rise of U.S. Women’s Soccer was published in November … Continue reading From the Desk of Rob Goldman: “Are You with Me?”
Read "1881: Women’s Soccer Is Born; "What next?"" from Chapter 1, "Everyone, Everywhere" of Soccer Stories: Anecdotes, Oddities, Lore, and Amazing Feats by Donn Risolo:
"Today, women have their own World Cup, under-20, and under-17 world championships, and Olympic soccer tournament, plus continental championships. There was a time, though, when the (male) soccer establishment considered organized women’s soccer something of an outrage.
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