This is a great piece from the New York Observer about female baseball fans.
And this is yet another great moment in 1986 New York Mets lore:
Baseball “groupies” and the players who consorted with them were kept behind closed doors, until the 1971 publication of Yankee pitcher Jim Bouton’s tell-all best-seller Ball Four, in which he tattled about his fellow players’ tomcatting. Barry Levinson’s 1984 film The Natural and Ron Shelton’s 1988 Bull Durham, with Mets fan Susan Sarandon as a baseball “Annie” (a nickname for groupie), also plumbed what was underneath players’ pants.
When three New York Mets were arrested on rape charges in 1992, former teammate Darryl Strawberry came to their defense: “As disgusting as these women are, man, that’s bad. It’s not like these are some classy ladies. They’re a bunch of pigs.”
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