Hank Aaron
Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Aaron is best known for setting the Major League record for most home runs in a career (755), surpassing the previous mark of 714 held by Babe Ruth. He won one World Series ring with the Milwaukee Braves in 1957, and the National League Most Valuable Player Award the same year. Aaron played for the Indianapolis Clowns in 1952, a Negro League team, with Toni Stone. Toni was the first woman to play in the Negro Leagues.
(interviewed 6/4/98)

Birch Bayh
He was the senator who sponsored the Title IX bill in the Senate.
(interviewed 5/20/98)

Patty Berg
She co-founded the LPGA and was elected its first president. She was also friendly with Babe Didrikson.
(interviewed 5/15/98)

Gai Ingham Berlage
She authored Women in Baseball: A Forgotten History. She is currently working on a book about the history of women's basketball.
(interviewed 5/11/98)

Wilma Briggs
She played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League under Jimmy Foxx for both the South Bend and the Fort Wayne teams.
(interviewed 10/18/98)

Fanny Blankers-Koen
She is a track pioneer who trained for the Olympics with 2 children and succeed in winning 4 gold medals at the 1948 Games.
(interviewed 6/28/98)

Mary Carillo
Former professional tennis player, current on-air sports broadcaster.
(interviewed 10/18/98)

Alison Carlson
Alison is an expert on Olympic gender testing. She currently works at Stanford University.
(interviewed 6/22/98)

Pat Connolly
Former Track & Field athlete, also coached Evelyn Ashford. Connolly was gender tested in what was called the "peek and poke" test in 1966. Currently Coaches T&F at Radford University.
(interviewed 10/18/98)

Anita DeFrantz
She is a member of the IOC and heads the Amateur Athletic Foundation. Anita is also a former Olympic bronze medalist in rowing.
(interviewed 6/18/98)

Margaret Deuschle (Audio only)
Margaret is Gertrude Ederle's sister. Margaret was in the boat that trailed Gertrude on her historic swim across the English Channel.
(interviewed 5/16/98)

Donna deVarona
Donna is former Olympic gold medalist in swimming (400m individual medley and 4 X 100 freestyle relay) and currently works as a sports commentator. She also actively particpated in the campaign to get Title IX legislation passed.
(interviewed 6/12/98)

Lynn Emery
Lynn holds a PhD and is an expert on the all-women's Olympics of 1922 as well as early collegiate women's basketball.
(interviewed 6/8/98)

Chris Evert
She currently works as a tennis commentator. She is a former tennis champion who has won several titles at all of the Grand Slam events. She is also known for being the fierce on-court rival of Martina Navratilova, one of the most celebrated tennis match-ups of the century.
(interviewed 6/29/98)

Mae Faggs-Starr
She won a gold medal in the 1952 for the 4 x 100 relay race and she took the bronze for the same event in 1956. She is often called the mother of the Tigerbelle Dynasty. She was coached by Ed Temple and she mentored Wilma Rudolph.
(interviewed 6/9/98)

Jimmy Farina
He was Maria Pepe's Little League coach. Maria Pepe was the first girl to ever play on a Little League team.
(interviewed 5/16/98)

Steve Flink
Writer, World Tennis Magazine.
(interviewed 10/18/98)

Betty Freidan
She wrote The Feminine Mystique which acted as one of the catalysts for the women's movement of the 1960's and 1970's.
(interviewed 5/11/98)

Bobbi Gibb
She was the first woman to run in the Boston marathon.
(interviewed 6/22/98)

Margaret Gisolo
She was the first girl to play in the American Legion baseball league. Margaret played in the American Legion Junior Baseball League during the 1920's when the league was similar to the minor leagues of today. Despite her outstanding play, the then-commissioner of baseball, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, barred her and all other women from playing in the junior league.
(interviewed 6/23/98)

Warren Goldstein
Professor at University of Hartford. Author of: A Brief History of American Sports.
(interviewed 10/18/98)

Christine Grant
Christine works as the athletic director at the University of Iowa. She is also the former president of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women and expert on Title IX issues.
(interviewed 6/18/98)

Rollin Haffer
She was the first person to sue a university over Title IX violations. She was a junior at Temple on a Badminton scholarship when she brought the suit against the University.
(interviewed 5/16/98)

Eleanor Holm-Whelan
She won a gold medal at the 1932 Olympics in the 100-m backstroke. She also held several world records in the 100-m and 200-m backstroke events. Avery Brundage kicked Eleanor off the 1936 Olympic team for sipping champagne.
(interviewed 5/15/98)

Dianne Holum
She was a gold, silver, and bronze medalist in the Olympics in the speedskating category. She also coached Beth and Eric Heiden.
(interviewed 6/23/98)

Joan Hult
She is a women's sports history expert who used to be affiliated with the University of Maryland.
(interviewed 5/20/98)

Mamie "Peanut" Johnson (Goodman)
She was one of the three women who played baseball in the Negro Leagues.
(interviewed 5/20/98)

Joan Joyce
A softball pioneer. She played for several years on the Raybestos Brakettes and she has been inducted into the National Softball Hall of Fame. She also launched the International Women's Professional Softball League with Billie Jean King in the 1970's.
(interviewed 5/15/98)

Billie Jean King
Billie has won several Wimbledon, Australian, French and U.S. Open singles and doubles titles. She was one of the "Original Nine," who were a group of women who started the Viriginia Slims Tour. She also started the Women's Tennis Association and the Women's Sports Foundation. She was one of the founders for the International Women's Professional Softball League with Joan Joyce.
(interviewed 6/28/98 & 10/19/98)

Peggy Kirk-Bell
Peggy was one of the charter members of the LPGA. She was also a close friend of Babe Didrikson.
(interviewed 6/12/98)

Nancy Leiberman-Cline
She is the head coach for the Detroit Shock, a WNBA basketball team. She played on the first women's U.S. Olympic basketball team in 1976. She played with the USBL's Springfield Fame and became the first woman to play professional basketball on a men's team.
(interviewed 6/9/98)

Donna Lopiano
She is the executive director of the Women's Sports Foundation. In addition, while serving as the Sports Information Director of the University of Texas at Austin, she set the standard for implementing Title IX statutes. She also played amateur softball for several years with the Raybestos Brakettes.
(interviewed 5/11/98)

Christine Lunardini
She is an expert on women's history and the history of American politics. She has formerly taught both subjects at both Princenton University and Barnard College. She also wrote 200 Events that Shaped Our Destiny: From Equal Suffrage to Equal Rights.
(interviewed 5/11/98 & 10/19/98)

Pat McCormick
She was the first person to achieve the "double-double" in diving. She won gold medals in both the platform and the springboard categories in both the 1952 and the 1956 Olympics.
(interviewed 6/17/98)

Ann Meyers
Currently she is a sports commentator for the WNBA. She also played on the first-ever U.S. women's Olympic basketball team in 1976. She was also the first woman to be offered a full athletic scholarship at UCLA and she was the first woman to try out for the NBA.
(interviewed 6/17/98)

Martina Navratilova
She has won several singles title at Wimbledon, the Australian, French, and U.S. Opens. She also revolutionized tennis by adding weight training to her regimen and making it okay for girls to sweat.
(interviewed 6/29/98)

Patsy Neal
She played college basketball with the Wayland Flying Queens during the 1950's. Wayland College was unique in that they often won the amateur athletic union championship title, they were one of the few colleges to offer women athletic scholarships, and they allowed their women's basketball team to travel to games on a plane.
(interviewed 6/1/98)

Paula Newby-Fraser
She is an eight-time Ironman World Champion. She is also the first woman to place in the men's top prize money (top 15 places) in a major international event. She also believes that women do better in longer distance races and that eventually a woman will beat all the men in the triathalon.
(interviewed 6/17/98)

Carole Oglesby
Carole wrote Encylopedia of Women in Sports. She also was a former Commissioner of the Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women and a the first president of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. She is also an expert on Title IX issues.
(interviewed 6/12/98)

Mary Pratt
Former Pitcher AAGPBL, Rockford Peaches 1943-1947.
(interviewed 10/18/98)

Maria Pepe
She was the first girl to ever play on a Little League team. She earned the right to play not on the baseball diamond, but in a courtroom. Pepe, with the help of the National Organizaton of Women, won a suit against the Little League organization which made it illegal to exclude girls from Little League teams.
(interviewed 5/16/98)

Margot Polivy
She was the lawyer who represented the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women in their fight with the NCAA. She is also an expert on Title IX issues.
(interviewed 5/20/98)

Harley Redin
He coached the Wayland Flying Queens in the 1950's.
(interviewed 6/4/98)

Billie Taylor Rota
She started playing for the New York Bloomers girls when she was only 17. She played 1st base for the team during the 20's and 30's.
(interviewed 5/9/98)

Gig Smith
Gig was a catcher and an outfielder on the Kenosha and Grand Rapids teams of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
(interviewed 5/20/98)

Louise Suggs
Louise was one of the founders of the LPGA and she served as a LPGA president for 3 terms. Also, she was the first woman elected into the LPGA Hall of Fame.
(interviewed 5/31/98)

Pat Summitt
She is the head of coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols who have won an unprecedented 3 consecutive NCAA championships. She also played on the first-ever U.S. women's Olympic basketball team in 1976. In addition, she coached the 1984 U.S. women's Olympic basketball team which was the first women's team to earn a gold medal in that sport.
(interviewed 6/1/98)

Kathrine Switzer
She was the 2nd woman to run in the Boston Marathon and she was hassled by spectators and the race organizers. She also actively lobbied the IOC to include the women's marathon in the Olympics.
(interviewed 6/12/98)

Sheryl Swoopes
Sheryl plays for the Houston Comets, a WNBA team. She resumed playing in the professional league just a few weeks after the birth of her first child. She scored more points than any person in the NCAA championship game (47 points). She was a member of the gold medal winning 1996 U.S. women's Olympic basketball team. She also was the first woman to have an athletic shoe named after her.
(interviewed 6/23/98)

Ed Temple
He was the head coach of the Tennessee State University Tigerbelles. The Tigerbelles spawned Olympic champions from the late 1950's until the 1970's including Mae Faggs Starr, Wilma Rudolph, and Wyomia Tyus.
(interviewed 6/2/98)

Willye White
Member of the famous Tennessee Tigerbelle Team at Tennessee State University.
(interviewed 10/18/98)

Nancy Williamson
She co-authored a book about the life and times of Babe Didrikson.
(interviewed 6/12/98)

Lynette Woodard
She plays for the Detroit Shock, a WNBA basketball team. She was the first woman to play for the Harlem Globetrotters. Also, she played college basketball during the early days of Title IX.
(interviewed 6/9/98)