Baseball and Romance as American Legend w/ KD Casey
Spirits
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Calling all sports fans! We’re joined by author KD Casey to talk about America’s pastime, baseball, through the lens of modern legend, romance, and inclusivity.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of sexism, ableism, anti semitism, and homophobia.
Guest
KD Casey is a romance writer and baseball enthusiast living in the Washington, DC, area, whose journey into baseball spans watching the Orioles play in the `90s, the Pirates play in the 2000s, and the Nationals play at RFK Stadium in the early, ignominious days of the franchise. On the nonfiction side, she’s written for a variety of baseball analysis websites, though can primarily be found at Baseball Prospectus. She believes in high socks, unbuttoned jerseys, and the designated hugger, not the designated hitter. Come discuss writing and baseball on Twitter and Instagram at @KDCaseyWrites.
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- Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends The Last Sun by KD Edwards!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirth's podcast, a boozy dime into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:12.0 | Every week, we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:15.6 | I'm Amanda. And I'm Julia. And this is episode 293 with author Katie Casey. Welcome to the show. Thank you all for having me. |
| 0:23.1 | It's really exciting to be on here and talk a little about mythology and a little bit about baseball. |
| 0:28.4 | So I'm excited to do that and also hear what y'all are drinking. Yes. Always excited to tell about drinking and also baseball. Baseball. |
| 0:36.0 | Baseball. We are so excited to have you for many reasons |
| 0:40.3 | one of which is that you're among my favorite romance authors and I am just so excited to connect |
| 0:47.0 | what I think of as like one of the primary American mythologies which is baseball to the primary |
| 0:52.1 | mythology of my life which is reading romance novels. |
| 0:56.9 | And just everything we talk about here, there's so much, it's a buffet. |
| 1:00.0 | And I am just delighted to be here talking to you. |
| 1:04.5 | So can you tell us a little bit about how baseball became a central mythology of your life? |
| 1:05.1 | Oh, goodness. |
| 1:06.3 | That's a really big question. |
| 1:07.2 | So first of all, thank you. |
| 1:26.3 | I primarily write, and this is a lot of adjectives in a row, queer, Jewish, baseball, romance about people with disabilities. And that's like a lot. I know. It's a very specific niche, but it's my niche. I feel like I've like feathered my nest there. |
| 1:27.1 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:28.7 | You know, it's always a question about, you know, sort of how do I got into baseball? I am from D.C. So D.C. did not have a baseball |
| 1:35.0 | team until I was an adult. And so, you know, the question is like, oh, did you go up going to games? |
| 1:41.0 | You know, did your, usually people ask, they did your male parent, you know, |
| 1:45.1 | teach you to do these things? |
| 1:46.8 | Scoring and sort of having this, like, you know, kid experience with like the, you know, |
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