T-shirt from an early interleague game between the Kansas City travel team and a local team from Austin, Texas
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: T-shirt from an early inter-league game between the Kansas City travel team and an Austin, Texas local team. Austin roller derby teams were far more experienced than the rest of the country's teams so often times cities would travel to play one of the Austin home teams, not the all star teams. It was fairly common in the early days to make a t-shirt for these sorts of inter league games.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Modern roller derby began in 2001 after four teams were formed and founded under the Bad Girls Good Women Productions (BGGW) name. In 2002, the flat track derby, Texas Rollergirls was formed from 65 members of the first BGGW teams after a disagreement over management practices caused a permanent split. BGGW took the remaining 15 skaters and became the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls forming a banked track league. A truly grass roots movement, the flat track derby uses a not-for-profit organizational model with female identifying skaters running the leagues and using their own money to buy rink time, produce tournaments, and print programs, putting any money earned, back into the organization.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Roller Derby
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: Women
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0193.01
label: accession number
content: 2016.0193
label: accession number
content: 2016.0193.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: t-shirt, roller derby
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 22 in; 91.44 cm x 55.88 cm