{"product_id":"we-are-the-troopers-the-women-of-the-winningest-team-in-pro-football-history-9780306846939","title":"We Are the Troopers: The Women of the Winningest Team in Pro Football History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover the unlikely story of the Toledo Troopers, the winningest team in the National Women's Football League, who won seven league championships in the 1970s--and gain full access to the players and key figures in the organization.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, and would-be drill sergeants. Black, white, Latina. Mothers and daughters and aunts and sisters. But most of all, they were athletes who had been denied the opportunity to play a game they were born to play. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, one the greatest, most accomplished athletes in sports history. Stephen Guinan grew up in Toledo pulling for his hometown football team, and--in the innocence of youth--did not realize at the time what a barrier-breaking lost piece of history he was witnessing. \u003ci\u003eWe Are the Troopers\u003c\/i\u003e shines light on forgotten champions who came together for the love of the game.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Guinan\u003c\/b\u003e, originally from Toledo, Ohio, is a writer and high school English and film teacher in Columbus. An Ohio State MFA recipient in fiction writing, he has had short stories and non-fiction published in \u003ci\u003eThe Massachusetts Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Green Mountains Review, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe South Carolina Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and other magazines. He is also the recipient of the Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council for his fiction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hachette Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50387333644562,"sku":"9780306846939","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0412d2fa-7272-4741-9400-b9c88bced0ba.jpg?v=1728878601","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/we-are-the-troopers-the-women-of-the-winningest-team-in-pro-football-history-9780306846939","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}