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Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League

Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League

D'Arcangelo, Lyndsey
de la Cretaz, Frankie

Hardcover

FictionFootballWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 1645036626
ISBN13: 9781645036623
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Published: Nov 2 2021
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.14
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

The groundbreaking story of the National Women's Football League, and the players whose spirit, rivalries, and tenacity changed the legacy of women's sports forever.

In 1967, a Cleveland promoter recruited a group of women to compete as a traveling football troupe. It was conceived as a gimmick--in the vein of the Harlem Globetrotters--but the women who signed up really wanted to play. And they were determined to win.

Hail Mary chronicles the highs and lows of the National Women's Football League, which took root in nineteen cities across the US over the course of two decades. Drawing on new interviews with former players from the Detroit Demons, the Toledo Troopers, the LA Dandelions, and more, Hail Mary brings us into the stadiums where they broke records, the small-town lesbian bars where they were recruited, and the backrooms where the league was formed, championed, and eventually shuttered. In an era of vibrant second wave feminism and Title IX activism, the athletes of the National Women's Football League were boisterous pioneers on and off the field: you'll be rooting for them from start to finish.

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