“I have to ask you a question,” Bill Byrne said as we sat in a hotel lobby near his home in Ohio. “Who was Joe Carr? You don’t know, do you?” No, I didn’t. “Joe Carr was the first commissioner in the nfl,” he said. “Everybody forgets believe me, everybody forgets unless people like you are writing books.” And that’s why I wrote this book. The Women’s Professional Basketball League has been erased from history. As both a sports and history buff, I find it understanding the past,howcan players,owners, and fans appreciate what they have now? A three-hour layover in an airport doesn’t sound so bad to women.
