Pete Rose said she was “bigger than any one player” in baseball during the 70s and 80s. Morganna the Kissing Bandit became a legend in sports for running onto baseball fields and kissing players during games. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hey, and welcome to The Short Stuff. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here, too, sitting in for Dave. And this is Short Stuff, kind of sports-related, but real pop culture, to tell you the truth.
Yeah, because if you grew up in the 70s and 80s, and you were a sports fan, in particular a baseball fan of Major League Baseball here in the United States, then no doubt at some point you either saw on the news or saw live during a game a woman wearing
run out onto the baseball field and chatted up for a moment with a professional baseball player and then kiss them on the cheek and then run back to the stands waving at least for a while until she started getting arrested for doing this. And that was Morgana the Kissing Bandit.
Yeah, apparently she was born Nancy Lee Rose in Louisville, Kentucky. She started lying about her age at a very young age, as we'll see, because she had a very difficult, really rough adolescence. But she became so famous for this during the 70s and 80s. That at one point, Pete Rose said that he considered her bigger than any one baseball player in the whole game.
Like she was really, really famous. She was on Letterman. She was on Carson. And she was an exotic dancer by trade, by profession. And I saw, Chuck, that her act, I saw it described as part nudity, part comedy. Right. Which is kind of tough to pull off, if you ask me.
But one of the things, in addition to running onto baseball fields that she was known for, that was very attention-getting, was her bust. She was extraordinarily buxom. Apparently, she had a 60-inch bust that required an eye cup. And so that, combined with running onto the field at sporting events and kissing players, it really captured the attention of the American public.
Yeah. And, you know, that's not the kind of thing we usually highlight when we're talking about women on the show. But you can't ignore that with Morgana the Kissing Bandit. Right. Most notably because it comes up later in a potential defense in court, which if you're wondering how in the world is that does that work, then you'll find out in Act Two.
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