A league of their own, a honey-loving bear and reality under suspicion
A Sunday can take you anywhere if CBS News Sunday Morning is steering. For this round of INYIM picks, Jane Pauley and the show’s correspondents lead us from a long-awaited women’s baseball revival to a beloved literary bear turning 100, then through family history, children’s books, Spanish cooking and the disquieting business of artificial intelligence. Six stories, six very different ways to spend a little quality time with your curiosity.
It’s a mix of hope, nostalgia, good food and one thoroughly modern question: in an era of convincing deepfakes, how much can we trust what we see? That is some Sunday wandering.
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Women’s Pro Baseball Returns After More Than Seven Decades
The return of women’s professional baseball is not just a sporting milestone; it is a chance to reconnect a new generation of players with a trailblazing chapter of American history. The Women’s Pro Baseball League began its inaugural season in August 2026, more than seven decades after the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ended.
Correspondent Faith Salie speaks with number-one draft pick Kelsie Whitmore, catcher Maggie Foxx, commissioner Justine Siegal and CEO Keith Stein about the effort to bring women back to the professional diamond. The old league helped inspire A League of Their Own; this one gets to write its own story.
Winnie-the-Pooh Turns 100: A Very Honey-Soaked Milestone
Some childhood companions refuse to age. Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared in A. A. Milne’s book published on October 14, 1926, and a century later the bear, his friends and their adventures remain instantly recognizable. In this classic Sunday Morning Almanac piece from 2012, Charles Osgood revisits the origins and enduring appeal of Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and Christopher Robin. Sweetness, melancholy and mischief all belong in the Hundred Acre Wood.
Kerry Kennedy Remembers the Extraordinary Joy of Ethel Kennedy
There is the public image of Ethel Kennedy, forever tied to one of America’s most consequential political families, and there is the mother her children knew. In Ethel Kennedy: The Extraordinary Life and Bold Legacy, daughter Kerry Kennedy revisits the wit, resilience and private warmth behind the headlines.
Speaking with Rita Braver, Kerry discusses her mother’s marriage to Robert F. Kennedy, the grief that followed his assassination and the complicated relationships that made up the larger Kennedy family. It is a portrait that makes space for joy without pretending the painful chapters never happened.
The Gruffalo Returns With a Granny and a Record-Breaking Bestseller
The monster in the deep dark wood has a new family visitor. Author Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler have reunited for Gruffalo Granny, the third Gruffalo picture book. Released in September 2026, it quickly became the U.K.’s biggest-selling book of the year at that point and set a record for the fastest-selling picture book.
Correspondent Elizabeth Palmer visits the pair to discuss their creative partnership and the way children’s literature can address surprisingly big feelings. Behind all those playful rhymes and wonderfully odd creatures is a serious respect for young imaginations. The Gruffalo arrived in 1999; the woodland still has plenty of life in it.
A Proper Paella: Seth Doane Goes to Valencia
From picture-book forests to the real-life kitchens of Valencia, Spain, correspondent Seth Doane explores the traditional preparation of paella. The rice dish has inspired countless interpretations around the world, but its birthplace has firm ideas about what makes a proper version. The ingredients matter, certainly, but so do place, practice and the people gathered around the pan. Now this is the sort of Sunday lunch we can get behind.
There is something wonderfully grounding about a story built around food and the rituals that survive from one generation to the next. And then, because Sunday Morning knows how to take a sharp turn, comes a story about whether we can even believe our own eyes.
Food, baseball, books and family memory all remind us that lived experience matters. The last selection asks what happens when technology becomes capable of imitating that experience with unsettling precision.
Detecting Deepfakes: Ted Koppel Questions What Is Real
In the final selection, Ted Koppel speaks with digital-forensics expert Hany Farid about deepfakes, manipulated imagery and the mounting difficulty of telling genuine material from convincing fabrications. Farid warns of the reach of synthetic content and the consequences when false images can be weaponized.
It is an especially uncomfortable subject for anyone who follows the news, works in media or simply wants to trust a photo. Artificial intelligence can perform astonishing tricks, but when seeing is no longer automatically believing, the question becomes how we rebuild confidence in what is real. Will AI unalive us?! Perhaps not the first question for a relaxing Sunday—but certainly one worth asking.
Sources: CBS News Sunday Morning, October 11, 2026; Women’s Pro Baseball League; Pan Macmillan.
