San Francisco Chronicle sports columnist Ann Killion told Melissa Ludtke’s story in her newspaper a few years ago. Now, these two women sportswriters, separated by decades, compare notes about the joys and challenges of writing sports. In 1977, another San Francisco woman sports columnist, Stephanie Salter, was the first to write that Sports Illustrated might take Major League Baseball to court due to its unequal treatment of this book’s author; she was right. You’ll hear about what happened in that court case, Ludtke v. Kuhn.
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Earlier Event: October 22
In Dodger Land: The 1977 World Series' Impact on Women's Rights in Baseball
Later Event: October 25
In This City of Free Speech, We Talk About Equal Rights