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

by Karra Porter and Eden O'Neill

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"