1977: Mary Shane's Rookie Season

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Documentary, True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 51 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. Slate Plus members get to hear more about the making of One Year and more about the culture of 1977 in supplementary episodes this season. Get access to those episodes, listen to the show without any ads, and support One Year by signing up for Slate Plus for just $1 right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	How would you describe the White Sox franchise for people that aren't familiar with it,
0:35.6	like what's the experience like of being a White Sox fan?
0:39.0	We'll be gone.
0:41.0	It's like, what now?
0:43.0	What can fall on our head today?
0:45.5	That's Bob Strunk.
0:47.2	He's a retired public defender, and he's been rooting for the Chicago White Sox baseball
0:51.5	team for more than 60 years.
0:54.0	Since 1959.
0:56.9	From the point of view of a diehard fan, the most important thing to understand about
1:01.0	the White Sox is that they are not the Chicago Cubs.
1:04.8	The working class city people were the Sox fans, whereas the Cubs fan is some creature that
1:12.3	was dropped into the Chicago area that's all happy and giddy, and he had a team actually
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