After moving from Chicago to Dallas in the spring of her sophomore year, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that joining the softball team at her private school not only helps her make friends, it also provides unexpected opportunities to learn and grow.

When Carrie is disappointed not to make the school soccer team, she turns her attention to creating a science fair project.

When Emma and her brothers and sisters want to get a kitten and another ferret, and Emma wants their nanny to be the chaperone on her soccer team trip instead of her mother, the children decide to go on strike to try to force their parents to meet their demands.

When Michelle starts sixth grade at the local junior high school, she's elated to have a chance to play basketball on the boys' team until she finds out that the boys don't want girls on their team.

In 1974, after Julie's parents divorce, she moves to a new San Francisco neighborhood where the school does not have a girls' basketball team, so she fights for the right to play on the boys' team.

Someone is stealing the equipment from Eva and Becca's softball team.

Kelly, the new girl in town dresses and acts a little different than everybody else. She also becomes the first girl to play baseball with the boys. Along the way she learns about friendship, prejudice, and what it takes to succeed in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

To improve his struggling football team's chances of winning, Coach Gardner brings in a new wide receiver, Jill Winston.

After sitting on the bench all season, tiny ten-year-old Zenon Kar finally gets her chance to play spaceball when Grebba, the star of Mars' best team, is unable to complete the championship game against Earth's finest.

Susan Strong, a high school student who takes up weight lifting to become slim and more attractive, discovers her talent for power lifting and wonders if she should pursue such an unglamorous and unfeminine sport.

Emma wants more than anything to play on her brother's baseball team.

High school baseball star Jim Roark is delighted to meet Jennifer Douglas, the second basewoman on the girls' softball team, until she becomes the first female player on his all-male team.

Zan Hagan, whose principal opposes her unfeminine activities, forms a girls' football team.

Four girls whose family lives are difficult compete in gymnastics.