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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: Morganna the Kissing Bandit

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

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.   

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0:00.0

Hey y'all. It's your girl Cheekies and I'm back with a brand new season of your favorite podcast, Cheekies and Chill.

0:06.2

I'll be sharing even more personal stories with you guys. And as always, you'll get my exclusive take on topics like love, personal growth, health, family ties, and more.

0:16.3

And don't forget, I'll also be dishing out my best advice to you on episodes of Dear Cheekies.

0:21.0

It's going to be an exciting year, and I hope that you can join me.

0:23.7

Listen to Cheekies and Chill, season four on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:34.1

Hey, and welcome to The Short Stuff.

0:35.7

I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here, too, sitting in for Dave.

0:39.2

And this is Short Stuff, kind of sports related, but real pop culture to tell you the truth.

0:46.3

Yeah, because if you grew up in the 70s and 80s and you were a sports fan, in particular a baseball fan, a Major League Baseball here in the United States,

0:56.0

then no doubt at some point you either saw in the news

1:00.2

or saw live during a game a woman run out onto the baseball field

1:06.0

and chatted up for a moment with a professional baseball player

1:10.5

and then kiss them on the cheek,

1:12.4

and then run back to the stands, waving, at least for a while, until she started getting arrested for doing this.

1:19.3

Right.

1:19.6

And that was Morgana, the kissing bandit.

1:22.8

Yeah.

1:23.4

Apparently, she was born Nancy Lee Rose in Louisville, Kentucky.

1:27.4

She started lying about her age at a very young age, as we'll see, because she had a very difficult, really rough adolescence.

1:36.8

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.

1:48.9

Like, she was really, really famous for this.

1:51.6

She was on Letterman.

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