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Anita Marie Martini (March 3, 1939 – July 10, 1993) was an American sports journalist and broadcaster. She was the first woman to cover a Major League Baseball (MLB) All-Star Game (1973) and the first female journalist allowed into a baseball locker room (after the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Houston Astros at the Astrodome to win the National League West pennant on October 1, 1974).
Page from Complaint. Ludtke was a plaintiff in a federal lawsuit, Melissa Ludtke and Time, Inc., Plaintiffs, v.Bowie Kuhn, Commissioner of Baseball et al. (1978) that is credited with giving equal access to Major League Baseball locker rooms to women sports reporters.
Jane Slater (born November 7, 1980) is an American journalist, who works as a reporter for the NFL Network.Slater is based in Dallas, Texas, and mainly reports on the Dallas Cowboys but has also covered the New Orleans Saints and the Tennessee Titans. [1]
Christine Brennan was one of the first female reporters allowed inside an NFL locker room, as a beat reporter for the Washington Post in 1985. ... "So many of these hard-line old-school coaches ...
Most people in those days still believed that women couldn't possibly know as much about sports as a man. "She wasn't afraid to walk in the Colts locker room," said Mannweiler. "Which, let's face ...
Lisa Olson is an American sports journalist. Her work has been featured in the anthology, "The Best American Sports Writing". She was previously a sports columnist for the New York Daily News, and the first female sports columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald, where she covered rugby union, Australian rules football, cricket and rugby league.
"I'm not going to stand for a man, you know, someone with a penis, in the women's locker room," she said. PHOTO: Rep. Nancy Mace speaks with reporters outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C ...
She was the first female sportswriter known to have entered a professional basketball locker room. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In February 1975, as a reporter for Newsday she asked New York Knicks coach Red Holzman to enter the locker room at Madison Square Garden , to which he agreed.