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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 38 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Kimberly Austin. |
| Summary |
In 1967, a Cleveland businessman had a brilliant idea: why not start a women's football team? It was conceived as a gimmick and a publicity stunt in the vein of the Harlem Globetrotters. He recruited women to compete as a traveling football troupe; 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 nineteen cities around the country, against the backdrop of second-wave feminism and the passage of Title IX, 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 lesbian 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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Added Author |
Austin, Kimberly, narrator.
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De La Cretaz, Britni.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781666535075 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1666535079 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14682107 |
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