Mad Seasons: The Story of the First Women's Professional Basketball League, 1978-1981

by Karra Porter and Eden O'Neill

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As the popularity of women's basketball burgeons, Karra Porter reminds us in Mad Seasons that today's Women's National Basketball Association, or WNBA had its origins in a ragtag league twenty years earlier. Porter tells the story of the Women's Professional Basketball League WBL, which pioneered a new era of women's sports. Formed in 1978, the league included the not-so-storied Dallas Diamonds, Chicago Hustle, and Minnesota Fillies. Porter's book...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0803287895

ISBN13:9780803287891

Release Date:May 2006

Publisher:University of Nebraska Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

Basketball History History of Sports Miscellaneous Professional Social Science Social Sciences Sports & Outdoors Sports & Recreation Women in Sports Women's Studies

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