Georgia Rosenbloom Frontiere,
owner of the L.A. Rams, and Joan Kroc,
owner of the San Diego Padres, can pick up a phone and alter the destinies of a certain number of people, but Frontiere and Kroc both inherited their power, along with their
teams, from their late husbands; neither
woman has a voice that counts in the
owners» circle of her
sport.
At the meeting Spears, her manager Larry Rudolph and producer Ann Carli, who produced the singer's first feature, Crossroads, pitched NASCAR brass on a story about the daughter of a successful stock car
team owner and how the young
woman (played by Spears) inspires a former driver to return to the
sport.