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One Year

1977 | 3. Mary Shane's Rookie Season

One Year

Slate Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Mary Shane made history with the Chicago White Sox, becoming the first woman hired as a legitimate major-league baseball announcer. But in 1977, she had to fight to be taken seriously in one of America’s most sexist industries. One Year is produced by Josh Levin, Evan Chung, and Madeline Ducharme. Mixing by Merritt Jacob. Want more One Year? Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to One Year and your other favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slow Burn show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/oneyearplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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How would you describe the White Sox franchise for people that aren't familiar with it?

0:35.5

Like what's the experience like of being a White Sox fan?

0:39.4

We'll be gone.

0:41.2

It's like, what now?

0:42.7

What can fall on our head today?

0:45.4

That's Bob Strunk.

0:47.0

He's a retired public defender,

0:49.0

and he's been rooting for the Chicago White Sox baseball team

0:51.8

for more than 60 years.

0:53.7

Since 1959.

0:56.7

From the point of view of a diehard fan, the most important thing to understand about the

1:01.1

White Sox is that they are not the Chicago Cubs.

1:04.1

The working class city people were the Sox fans, whereas the Cub fan is some creature that was dropped into the Chicago area

1:14.5

that's all happy and giddy. And you had a team actually marketing losing, lovable losers.

1:21.1

They'd feel part of some sort of cult, like a Save the Whales bunch to me.

1:26.2

The Cubs play on the north side of Chicago,

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