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Title: Timely and Topical
Review: As the Women's World Cup fills stadium seats and 6 to 7 million girls are now playing organized soccer, Littman's chronicle of a U-14 girls A level soccer team is somehow exquisitely timely and topical. This is a good book. Not just because you can't wait to see whether the team and it's members are going to meet each succeeding challenge, but because it reflects something new: the girls are defining new roles as the country embraces an old sport. The Beautiful Game not only has the tradition of great sports melodrama, but is also reminicient of the guts and determination of Halberstam's The Amateurs. A great snapshot of a work in progress--women to be, in athletics.
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