Christine Brennan
Christine Brennan
Christine Brennan is an award-winning sports columnist for USA Today, a commentator for ABC News and NPR, a best-selling author and a nationally known speaker. Twice named one of the nation's top-10 sports columnists, Brennan is a leading expert on the Olympics and women's sports issues. She is the author of seven books, including the national best-seller Inside Edge and Best Seat in the House, a father-daughter sports memoir.
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June 17, 2011
A League of Her Own
Raised during the 1960s and 1970s, a time when girls were not encouraged to love or play sports, I was lucky.
I had my own personal Title IX. I had my dad.
I couldn’t wait until my father came home from work every night so I could play catch with him in the front yard. For a time, I borrowed one of his old baseball mitts. Then, for my eighth birthday, when my parents asked me what I wanted, I said I would like my own glove. Today, a girl asking for a baseball mitt wouldn’t make news, but this didn’t happen today. It happened in 1966.
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