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Locker Room Talk: Sexism In A Different Dodgers/Yankees World Series

While everyone else was busy watching that yahoo pry the ball out of Mookie’s glove, I was transported back in time to a different Dodgers/Yankees World Series…the one in 1977.

I was listening to author Melissa Ludtke tell the story of how then-baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn would not allow her access to interview the players, so that she was unable to do her job alongside her male colleagues. Even though she was assigned to cover that World Series. Even though she wrote for Sports Illustrated!

Her employer (Time Inc.