With fellow CRI rower Lisa Laskin as the event’s moderator, I will describe what it was like being the 26-year old woman reporter who took Major League Baseball to court in the 1970s. Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, a lawyer by training, contended that separating me from my male peers - which meant keeping me out of the locker room when the ballplayer interviews took place - provided me with equal access to my sources on whom I depended for my stories. I disagreed, and he lost in court.