8 | Women In Sports: Play Like a Person and Look However You Want

Play like a man but look like a girl? We are going to hard pass on both.

Make-up, hair-dos, playing in dresses (or worse), having chaperones and going to charm schools: Playing professional sports seems to come with some serious restrictions for women.  

We talk about women playing professional sports in the US: the woman who was too good for Babe Ruth’s liking, the All-American Girls’ Professional Baseball League, women who play football the only way they can, what hasn’t changed since the 1940s, and how much we love that Geena Davis movie.

We have a lot of fun on this episode, and get to discuss history, culture, sports, and film. We promise even the non-sports fans among us will be glad they’re here.

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Written by Misty Wilson-Mehrtens and Allegra Davis Hanna.