Rachel Bachman

The WNBA players achieved an almost 400% raise in average pay and salary cap from what they had been getting.

This is not only the biggest raise any sports league has ever gotten, it's also, in Golden's memory, the biggest increase any union anywhere has ever negotiated.

And by the way, she's 79 years old, so she's seen some things.

And the reason she did this was to calculate how long the average WNBA player's

And she found it's only two to three years long.

And now that's important because if you're negotiating for benefits, you might want them to kick in immediately because if they kick in a few years into someone's career, many players might never see that benefit.

So I think her approach as an outsider really helped her.

to give some foundational information to the union that they could use to argue for the best possible benefits and salaries.

She said when she was walking from home plate back up to her seat in the stands, she was getting hundreds, thousands of people cheering for her.

And she said, that's bigger than getting the Nobel.