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Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League
Written by Britni De La Cretaz and Lyndsey D'Arcangelo
Narrated by Kimberly Austin
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This little-known story about the rise and fall of the National Women's Football League is a celebration of women athletes and their fight on and off the field.
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Britni De La Cretaz
Britni de la Cretaz is a freelance writer who focuses on the intersection of sports and gender. A former sports columnist for Longreads and Bitch Media, they received the 2017 Nellie Bly Award for Investigative Journalism from the Transformative Culture Project for their work on racism in Boston sports media and were nominated for the 2019 SABR Analytics Research Award for their writing on the queer history of women's baseball for Narratively. They live in the Boston area.
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