Steve Hendershot's Uningrained podcast investigates a cultural idea that's so ingrained it's become invisible. Season two explores the twin stories of women's baseball and fastpitch softball, and asking why America has come to treat softball as baseball for girls. Victoria Jackson provides insights showing the historical conditions that help to explain how baseball became gendered male and softball, female, in the middle decades of the twentieth century in the United States.
When No One Went to Bat for Girls in Baseball
If sports leaders outside the United States spent much time and energy building a societal understanding that global football was a manly sport, meant for only boys and men (and to help boys become men), a parallel dynamic played out in this country with two sports: baseball and American football. In Episode 2, Victoria Jackson joins Steve Hendershot's Uningrained podcast to dive deep with this history.