Hail Mary by De la Cretaz Britni

Hail Mary

The Rise And Fall of the National Women’s Football League

De la Cretaz Britni

In the early 1970s, a businessman had a brilliant idea: why not start a women’s football league? It was conceived as a gimmick and a publicity stunt to capitalize on the popularity of Second Wave Feminism and the passage of Title IX. He recruited women across the country; much to his surprise, he learned that women really wanted to play, and play hard. Hail Mary is the story of the unlikely rise of the National Women’s Football League and the players who loved a game that society told them they shouldn’t be playing. In fourteen cities around the country, these athletes broke new barriers and showed adoring crowds what women were capable of physically. Thousands of people came to watch-perhaps to gawk at first-but then, in the end, to cheer. Hail Mary is a rollicking chronicle of fearless women-players on the Detroit Demons, the Toledo Troopers, the LA Dandelions, and more-bringing us into the stadiums where they broke records, the small-town bars where they were recruited, and the backrooms where the league was conceived, and where it ended. Hail Mary is a celebration of women athletes and their fight on and off the field, and a powerful story of the league that changed their lives and the course of women’s sports

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Details

ISBN 9781645036623
Genre Sports
Publication Date 02-Nov-21
Publisher Bold Type Books
No. of Pages 304
LoC Classification GV955.5.N37 .D4 2021
Rating Good
Subject Football – History. – United States; Women football players – History. – United States
BookID 15690

Author: LFWBooks