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001			on1288139775
003			OCoLC
005			20220906121915.0
008			211210s2022 nyuaf e b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2021055201
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019			_a1287993030 _a1288026770
020			_a9780306846939 _q(hardcover)
020			_a0306846934 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1288139775 _z(OCoLC)1287993030 _z(OCoLC)1288026770
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043			_an-us-oh _an-us---
092			_a796.332 _bG964
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aGuinan, Stephen, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aWe are the Troopers : _bthe women of the winningest team in pro football history / _cStephen Guinan.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2208
264		1	_aNew York, N.Y. : _bHachette Books, _c2022.
300			_axv, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 283-288) and index.
505	0		_aAuthor's note -- Prologue -- Part I -- The great black swamp -- The promoter -- That kind of character -- Chaos -- The compromise -- First down -- They're football players -- They can't catch me, momma -- Part II -- Ownership -- World champions -- The bond -- The world's greatest football player -- Miracle -- The brawl -- Obstacle -- The unthinkable -- Part III -- Showdown -- Deadlock -- Blizzard -- Angels in the backfield -- The return -- Broken band -- The women of tomorrow -- Epilogue -- The Toledo Troopers 1971- 1979 -- In memoriam -- Acknowledgements.
520			_a"Amid a national backdrop of the call to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, the National Women's Football League was founded as something of a gimmick. However, the league's star team, the Toledo Troopers, emerged to challenge traditional gender roles and amass a win-loss record never before or since achieved in American football. The players were housewives, factory workers, hairdressers, former nuns, high school teachers, bartenders, mail carriers, pilots, would-be drill sergeants. Black, white, Latina. Mothers and daughters and aunts and sisters. But most of all, they were athletes who were denied the opportunity to play a game they were born to play. Before the protests and the lobbyists, before the debates and the amendments, before the marches and the mandates, there was only an obscure advertisement in a local Midwestern paper and those who answered it, women such as Lee Hollar, the only woman working the line at the Libbey glass factory; Gloria Jimenez, who grew up playing sports with her six brothers; and Linda Jefferson, the greatest female athlete you've never heard of. Stephen Guinan grew up in Toledo pulling for his hometown football team, and who -- in the innocence of youth-did not realize at the time what a barrier-breaking lost piece of history he was witnessing. We Are the Troopers sheds light on forgotten champions who came together for the love of the game"-- _cProvided by publisher.
610	2	0	_aToledo Troopers (Football team) _xHistory.
610	2	0	_aWomen's Professional Football League _xHistory.
610	2	0	_aNational Women's Football League (U.S.) _xHistory.
650		0	_aWomen football players _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aFootball _zUnited States _xHistory. _959933
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c351977 _d351977