Crying in Baseball with Julie Kliegman

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

News, Society & Culture, History, Culture, True Crime, Politics

4.5 • 23.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

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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. To...

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0:00.0	a thousand boyfriends just dropped their sandwiches hearing me say that. So sorry to those sandwiches.
0:06.5	Welcome to your wrong about where sometimes we are all about sports and it is, I said that weird.
0:27.6	And it is baseball night in America.
0:32.6	Am I revealing myself as someone who's never watched a sport aside from figure skating?
0:36.6	Good because I am. And we are talking with Julie Klegman, author of finding Renee Richards, about a topic
0:45.2	that I am calling, crying in baseball. Julie, you are talking to us about some exciting news
0:51.2	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 some exciting news in sports today. And also you are some exciting news in sports because
0:55.9	you have a new book coming out. Will you tell us about that? I would love to. My new book is a biography
1:02.2	called Finding Renee Richards about Renee Richards, subject of a previous episode on this very show.
1:09.8	This very show, you say.
1:11.3	Yeah, a couple years back, we had a delightful conversation about my pal Renee,
1:17.7	who is a transgender tennis player who back in 1977 sued for her right to play professional
1:26.1	tennis and won.
1:27.2	Back when a lot of, well, at least two, American women. sued for her right to play professional tennis and won.
1:33.4	Back when a lot of, well, at least two, American proxy wars about gender were being fought on tennis courts, interestingly.
1:36.3	Right, which we also talked about the other one in an episode of the show.
1:40.7	So we've really got our tennis bases covered, but that was weird. There's no bases in
1:45.9	tennis, to be clear. But there are bases in baseball. You're like, don't get confused, Sarah.
1:52.2	There are. And we're exploring a very exciting topic today. And I would love for you to tell us
1:59.1	about that, too. Yeah. So I'm really excited to talk to you about the history of women in baseball.
2:05.9	I think way fewer people know about the history, aside from obviously a league of their own,
2:14.6	and that there's no crying in baseball, allegedly.
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