Short Stuff: Morganna the Kissing Bandit

短篇故事:吻贼莫甘娜

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2025-03-12

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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 run out onto the baseball field

  • and chatted up for a moment with a professional baseball player

  • and then kissed 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 for this.

  • She was on Letterman, she was on Carson, and she was an exotic dancer by trade, by profession.