Baseball’s Slow March Toward Inclusion feat. Britni de la Cretaz

Ep. 77 — Alex and Bobby run through some baseball-themed Jeopardy questions (and knock them out of the park), and try to parse which unwritten rule Twins minor leaguer Royce Lewis broke. Then they bring on Britni de la Cretaz, a sports columnist for Longreads and writer focusing on the intersection of sports and gender, to talk about making space for women in baseball beyond the foul lines, her writing process in an under-covered corner of sports journalism, and why she’s watching less baseball this year. Finally, this week’s Three Up, Three Down features a patchwork A’s rotation, and what Yasiel Puig’s bat tastes like.

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Links:

Baseball-themed Jeopardy questions

Yasiel Puig tells us why he licks his bat

Alex Rodriguez goes #2 just like the rest of us plebes

Songs featured in this episode:

Girlpool — “It Gets More Blue” • Real Estate — “Crime” • The Cure — “In Between Days” • Booker T. & the M.G.’s — “Green Onions”

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