Sports card of roller derby announcer and coach, Bob Noxious of the Vaudeville Vixens: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Sports card of roller derby announcer and coach Bob Noxious of the Vaudeville Vixens. Color photograph of Bob Noxious in a pink blazer on the front of the card and statistics on the back.

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.

Materials, dates and provenance

• date made: 2009
• Object Name: sports card, roller derby
• Physical Description: paper (overall material)
• Measurements: overall: 3 3/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 9.525 cm x 6.35 cm
• name of sport: Roller Derby
• level of sport: Professional
• web subject: Women
• ID Number: 2016.3108.13
• nonaccession number: 2016.3108
• catalog number: 2016.3108.13
• Data Source: National Museum of American History

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