A Pod of Their Own, Episode 34: Remembering Joan Payson

Welcome back to A Pod of Their Own, a show by the women of Amazin’ Avenue where we talk all things Mets, social justice issues in baseball, and normalize female voices in the sports podcasting space.  This week, we begin by discussing the two newest Mets, Michael Wacha and Rick Porcello as well as the Yoenis Cespedes financial settlement. Next, we talk about the life of the first owner in Mets history. Listener Ellen Linder suggested we discuss Joan Payson when she won our “Choose Our Topic” raffle at our Dollars to Dingers fundraiser in September. This was an absolutely wonderful topic and we loved researching this fascinating lady. Finally, we wrap things up with Walk-off Wins, where each of us talks about what’s making us happy this week, baseball-related or otherwise. (timestamp) You can listen or subscribe to all of our wonderful Amazin’ Avenue Audio podcasts through Apple Podcasts, where we encourage you to leave a review if you enjoy the show. It really helps! And you can find us on the Stitcher app, Spotify, or listen wherever you get your podcast. Our wonderful listener Ellen Lindner is cartoonist and illustrator based in NYC and drew the awesome The Cranklet’s Chronicle, a zine about women in baseball. One of the issues is all about Joan Payson. You can find her work on http://littlewhitebird.com/. Also check out her Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/littlewhitebird Also you can follow A Pod of Their Own on Twitter (@apodoftheirown) and you can also follow all of our co-hosts on Twitter: Allison McCague (@PetitePhD), Maggie Wiggin (@maggie162), and Linda Surovich (@LindaSurovich). You can also email the show at [email protected]. Look for A Pod of Their Own in your feeds every Wednesday and don’t forget: there’s no crying in podcasting! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices