Scott Stephens received his first set of Roller skates at age six in 1966 - and soon he was staging Roller Derby games in his backyard.
When Stephens started training at the new T-Bird Rollerdrome in Pico.
In fact, many of the T-Birds were just as popular as those on traditional sports teams such as the Dodgers, Lakers, and Rams.
Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s, it was impossible not to have heard about Roller Derby and the Los Angeles Thunderbirds, whose games were televised.
Scott Stephens received his first set of Roller skates at age six in 1966 - and soon he was staging Roller Derby games in his backyard