This week I had the opportunity and pleasure to meet and interview one of AN’s favorite sports writers, Oakland Athletics beat writer for the San Francisco Chronicle Susan Slusser*. Susan has covered the A’s since 1999, is a Hall of Fame voter, and active in the Baseball Writer’s Association of America, having served as the first female president and on the Board beginning in 2014.
I was curious about women’s roles in baseball sports writing from her vantage point, not so much the idea of equal pay for equal work as was the focus of much of the 2016 election debates, but more in terms of how it feels to be a woman writing in baseball—a traditionally male-dominated profession.