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iwanthermidnightz · 2 years

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Maybelle Blair "could talk about baseball forever," she likes to say.

That's how the trailblazing 95-year-old wound up on stage at an event in New York City this summer, promoting a new TV series about women's baseball -- and then talking about something she never expected.

"You don't have to hide. I hid for 75, 85 years and this is actually, basically, the first time I've ever come out," Blair said at an event in June, speaking about her sexuality in public for the first time.

The audience burst into supportive applause.

Weeks later, speaking with ABC News, Blair said she hadn't planned on announcing her sexuality that day. But it was fitting, given the setting: The June event at which Blair had spoken was for the upcoming Prime Video series "A League of Their Own”.

Blair herself was a player for the Peoria Redwings in 1948. She and the 650 other female players in the league inspired the film and its TV follow-up.

The TV reboot, on which Blair was a consultant, aims to be even more inclusive than its source material.

Blair proudly noted that the Amazon adaptation, which premieres Friday on Prime Video, builds on the movie's legacy by focusing on Black female players and the racism they faced, as well as the reality of gay athletes balancing their personal hopes with society's homophobia.

"Penny Marshall would have loved to have done this," Blair said, referring to the original film's famed director and executive producer.

"She couldn't have done it in 1992," she added. "It wouldn't have gone over."

For Blair, working on the TV show -- helping the writers and actors tell more truths about the beginning of women's baseball -- may have helped her publicly embrace her own truth.

"I'm so happy I did come out, now that the little girls can have a chance to realize that it's not so bad to be who they are," Blair told ABC. "They should be proud of who they are and be happy that they can be able to live a life of their own. And that's what it's all about: a league of our own, so we need a life of our own."

Still, she admitted, it was hard for her to say it out loud: "gay."

"I was so afraid in my era that if you came out, we couldn't do anything. We couldn't be schoolteachers ... we couldn't even join the service," she said. "We were [considered] the bad guys, which isn't true."

#this is so 🥹#give it up for maybelle #a league of their own #maybelle blair

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goaliekisses · 2 years

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the first time in 129 years! naz took the cup to the mosque where the public funeral for the afzaal family, who were k*lled in an islamophobic attack in june, was held

#HEEEEE #nazem kadri #colorado avalanche #hockey #this is so 🥹#calgary flames

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iscariotapologist · 5 months

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thank u for openly being "weird about god." it has helped me Realize that i can still be a person of faith just when i was thinking there was No Way.

thank you for saying this dear!! stay weird 😘

#this is so 🥹#the ask tag

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kugisaaki · 1 year

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what if i just put this here and leave ? then what?

#i was reading the comic and #this is so 🥹#obey me #omswd #omnb #obey me mammon #mammon

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kithtaehyung · 10 months

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If tumblr was giving awards for fics I'm pretty damn sure you'll get all of em, ryen.... At this point everyone reads 3tan....

Petition to make 3tan a paperback/hardcover....

Oh babe wait😭 this is so nice but I’m pretty damn sure a lot of people don’t even know what 3tan is LMAO I get asks about it quite a lot! but thank you endlessly. I’m just glad you’re all here and enjoying the series🫂🍊

Also! In the process of getting it formatted for physical book form :D Stay tuned for updates on that!

#this is so 🥹#brown bi beautiful #asks:3tan #lovely people #3tan #*ryenfictalk #mailbox💌

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jimmys-zeppelin · 2 years

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#this is so 🥹#hashtag cry vibes #pink floyd #Spotify

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silverfox66 · 8 months

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I adore this recent trend (if that's the right word) of letting an orchestra play classical music on a festival. It's magical to see thousands of festival-goers going absolutely wild on Beethoven. Mosh/circlepits, crowd surfing. It's wonderful to see the orchestra and the audience having the time of their lives.

#haha this almost makes me wanna go to festivals #Lowlands #these are two different worlds getting together #it's so wholesome 🥹#Beethoven #Classical Music

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mountainshroom · 21 days

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Felt like drawing some silly cats :)

#playing with/braiding someones hair is ultimate sign of trust for me #and i like the idea that katara likes doing peoples hair so 🥹 i dont knoww #bit of a modern au for them #and cats ofc #atla #avatar the last airbender #katara #toph #toph beifong #art #my art #fanart #digital art

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inkjetpaladin · 3 months

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#i want to gobble them up #i’m so 🥹🥹��#fushiguro toji #fushiguro megumi #toji fushiguro #megumi fushiguro #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #toji #megumi #jjk toji #jjk megumi #toji zenin #jujutsu toji #fanart #art

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pas-si-fleur · 1 month

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Shot from the promotional trailer of one of the manga volumes made also by trigger a few years back vs the same shot in the anime now,,,,,,, farcille sweep forever

#dungeon meshi #farcille #im so happy with this episode.............🥹

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iwanthermidnightz · 2 years

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I know I sound like a consummate optimist, but I’m really not. I lose perspective all the time. Sometimes everything just feels completely pointless. I know the pressure of living your life through the lens of perfectionism. And I know that I’m talking to a group of perfectionists because you are here today graduating from NYU.

And so this may be hard for you to hear: In your life, you will inevitably misspeak, trust the wrong people, under-react, overreact, hurt the people who didn’t deserve it, overthink, not think at all, self sabotage, create a reality where only your experience exists, ruin perfectly good moments for yourself and others, deny any wrongdoing, not take the steps to make it right, feel very guilty, let the guilt eat at you, hit rock bottom, finally address the pain you caused, try to do better next time, rinse, repeat. And I’m not gonna lie, these mistakes will cause you to lose things.

I’m trying to tell you that losing things doesn’t just mean losing. A lot of the time, when we lose things, we gain things too.

Now you leave the structure and framework of school and chart your own path. Every choice you make leads to the next choice which leads to the next, and I know it’s hard to know sometimes which path to take. There will be times in life when you need to stand up for yourself. Times when the right thing is to back down and apologize. Times when the right thing is to fight, times when the right thing is to turn and run. Times to hold on with all you have and times to let go with grace. Sometimes the right thing to do is to throw out the old schools of thought in the name of progress and reform. Sometimes the right thing to do is to listen to the wisdom of those who have come before us. How will you know what the right choice is in these crucial moments? You won’t.

How do I give advice to this many people about their life choices? I won’t.

Scary news is: you’re on your own now. Cool news is: You’re on your own now.

I leave you with this: We are led by our gut instincts, our intuition, our desires and fears, our scars and our dreams. And you will screw it up sometimes. So will I. And when I do, you will most likely read about on the internet. Anyway…hard things will happen to us. We will recover.

Taylor Swift in her commencement address for NYU’s graduating Class of 2022 (May 18, 2022)

#taylor swift #this is so 🥹

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ackaff · 2 months

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It's dangerous to go alone, take this

#little baby sturgeon 🥹#so precious 🥹#sturgeon #fish!!

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whogirl42 · 4 months

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Grover being all sweet innocent cinnamon roll reasurring Percy and Annabeth that he'll be okay staying behind with Ares like he isn't planning 5D chess psychological warfare on the god of war be like

#My little boy legit pulled a Peeta on the God of War I'm so proud🥹#Mine #percy jackson #grover underwood #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson series #pjo tv show #pjo series #Pjo #pjo spoilers #percy jackson spoilers #peeta mellark #Thg

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saybiwithme · 7 months

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Your blog is awesome and makes me smile. Thank you

This is so sweet I’m gonna cry thank you 😭

#asks #anon #this is so 🥹

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sufroyo · 2 months

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they are like three peas in a pod to me ........

#froyoscribbles #persona #persona 3 #p3 #makoto yuki #persona 4 #p4 #yu narukami #persona 5 #p5 #ren amamiya #id in alt text #omg art from me twice in one week....trying to stay silly with art 🥹 working on streetfghter stuff so hopefully will finish tht soon too <3

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vulcanette · 8 months

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😭 people on tiktok are commenting on the barrel scene from the OPLA and putting shoe emojis and then typing out their dreams, as if they are putting their foot on the barrel with the crew 😭😭😭♥️♥️♥️

for example:

#opla #I’m gonna cry this is so sweet #I hope all the nakama make their dreams come true 🥹♥️#for me: 👢 I’m going to own my own home one day!! and be safe!!!

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