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Elena Kagan Lesbian Controversy and Softball

Elena Kagan’s slow-pitch past is no evidence of her sexual orientation, if history is any judge. From Billy Crystal’s ’80s show-biz league to Naomi Campbell’s swing on Ugly Betty, Rebecca Dana checks out what it means to play.

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A woman is lobbing softballs. Is she…a) a lesbian? b) a wimp? c) a journalist? or d) Reese Witherspoon?

It all depends on the context, of course, for softball, the most fraught of American sports.

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