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'Locker Room Talk' details a woman's fight to report from MLB locker rooms

In 1978, Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke fought for — and won — the right to report from Major League Baseball locker rooms. Ludtke reflects on the groundbreaking case, and what it’s meant for generations of women covering sports.

Ludtke’s book is “Locker Room Talk: A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside.”

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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