Josephine "Ma" Bogash

Josephine 'Ma' Bogash was one of the two inaugural inductees into the National Roller Derby Hall of Fame in 1952. As the matriarch of the Bogash skating family, she competed during the sport's original endurance and early banked-track years, and her career bridged the sport's earliest competitive era and its emergence as a national spectator phenomenon.

Her son, Billy Bogash, was inducted the following year (1953), making the Bogashes the first parent-and-child Hall of Fame pairing in roller derby history. The specific arenas, teams, and seasons of her playing career are documented in family archives and roller derby retrospectives; this archive continues to research and verify additional detail.