Outsports Radio

Britni de la Cretaz has written some of most important journalism in the last couple years at the intersection of sports, gender, culture, queerness. In the middle of groundbreaking articles on nonbinary inclusion in sports and the hidden stories of trans men in the continuing transgender athletic inclusion "debate", they found time to team up with standout sports writer Lyndsey D'Arcangelo and wrote a book. Their effort Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League would be a sizzling piece of period fiction of sport coming in the cusp of the changes of the 1970s... But the thing is, It's not fiction. In 1973, after a prehistory full of sideshows, and barnstorming, a group of teams, investors, and women with athleticism, spark, and a dream got together and formed the National Women Football League. This is a story of the history of a league filled with a cast of characters that including a tough Texas-born quote machine, glamour teams from glamour towns, gritty women who just wanted