Crying in Baseball with Julie Kliegman
6/9/20261 hr 26 min
Could there be a little crying in baseball as a treat? Sports correspondent Julie Kliegman is here to tell Sarah about the history of women’s baseball and softball and to finally teach her the rules of the game. From the days when women played alongside men, to the first women’s team in the 1940s, to the sexist rules placed on their teams, and the impressive modern players that are changing the game, they discuss the past and present through the lens of the 1992 film A League of Their Own. Together they try to follow the sport around what Sarah calls the Crazy Straw of Progress and around a loving baseball diamond that has long led the players home. Digressions include the imaginary Supreme Court case Woman v. Horse, Fried Green Tomatoes, and gym parachute week.
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Edited + Produced by Miranda Zickler:
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First 90 secondsSarah Marshall· Host0:01
A thousand boyfriends could drop their sandwiches hearing me say that, so sorry to those sandwiches. [upbeat music] Welcome to You're Wrong About, where sometimes we are all about sports, and it is [laughs] ... I said that weird. [laughs] And it is baseball night in America bec- am I revealing myself as someone who's never watched a sport aside from figure skating? Good, because I am. And we are talking with Julie Kliegman, author of Finding Renee Richards, about a topic that I am calling crying in baseball. Julie, you are talking to us about some exciting news in sports today, and also you are some exciting news in sports because you have a new book coming out. Will you tell us about that?
Julie Kliegman· Guest0:59
I would love to. Uh, my new book is a biography called Finding Renee Richards about Renee Richards, a subject of a previous episode on this very show.
Sarah Marshall· Host1:09
This very show, you say?
Julie Kliegman· Guest1:11
Yeah. A couple years back we had a delightful conversation about my pal Renee, uh, who is a transgender tennis player who back in 1977 sued for her right to play professional tennis and won.
Sarah Marshall· Host1:27
Back when a lot of, well, at least