still have the wrong idea of what roller derby is all about. “They have this misconception that it’s dramatic and theatrical like when it was popular during the 1970s,” she said.

By Richard Sandomir Gerry Murray, an aggressive and durable roller derby star who began her career in the late 1930s — and, after retiring, resumed it in the 1970s — and whose teammates ...

“Derby” (1970), and reduced both the size of the roller derby track and the angle of its banking to allow for easier viewing. “His father had a humongous track that took days to take down ...