Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Join ¡Pleibol! project collaborator, Mark Ocegueda , as he talks about the significant impact women’s community teams had in local Latino neighborhoods. These teams allowed women to assert their autonomy and athleticism at a time when women were often discouraged from playing sports.
This video is one of eleven produced by our project collaborators for ¡Pleibol! digital learning activities and engagement.
⚾️ Check out the online exhibition and learn more about ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues: https://americanhistory.si.edu/pleibol
🎥 Join curators, museum staff, and community members in our virtual exhibition opening celebration: youtube.com/watch?v=zfSrSbWQANk&t=899s
Join ¡Pleibol! project collaborator, Mark Ocegueda , as he talks about the significant impact women’s community teams had in local Latino neighborhoods. These teams allowed women to assert their autonomy and athleticism at a time when women were often discouraged from playing sports.
This video is one of eleven produced by our project collaborators for ¡Pleibol! digital learning activities and engagement.
⚾️ Check out the online exhibition and learn more about ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues: https://americanhistory.si.edu/pleibol
🎥 Join curators, museum staff, and community members in our virtual exhibition opening celebration: youtube.com/watch?v=zfSrSbWQANk&t=899s


![Hear My Voice: Graphophone with wax recording (cylinder is coated with wax), 1881
Speaker: Alexander Melville Bell, father of Alexander Graham Bell
Content: “[trilled r sounds] There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy [trilled r sound]. I am a graphophone, and my mother was a phonograph.” Hear My Voice: Graphophone with wax recording (cylinder is coated with wax), 1881](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Pd6Rgrlbrxw/mqdefault.jpg)




![Hear My Voice: Sound recording, glass disc with photographic emulsion, made March 11, 1885
“. . . and H. G. Rogers. It’s the eleventh day of March, 1885 [trilled r sound]. Who pushed in the pipe? Mary had a little lamb and its fleece was white as snow . . . . Everywhere that Mary went . . . [startled noise] [tone]. Mary had a little lamb and its fleece was white as snow. Everywhere that Mary went, the little lamb was sure to go. How is this for high? . . .” Hear My Voice: Sound recording, glass disc with photographic emulsion, made March 11, 1885](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QTlNDnTJIfA/mqdefault.jpg)


