Lest we forget: Alison Gordon

February 13, 2015

One of the first women reports to make it into a mens’ locker room, Alison Gordon passed away yesterday at the age of 72.

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Gordon, who covered the Blue Jays for the Toronto Star, wrote about her experiences in her 19085 memoir, Foul ball!: Five Years in the American League, which is include in 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read before They Die.

According to the obituary on the CBC site, “Gordon was also the author of the Kate Henry series of mystery novels, which focus on a heroine sports writer who solves murders in professional baseball. She published five novels from 1988 to 1997.”

I love the line from this video that “a baseball reporter’s real work is done over the typewriter” (kids, ask your parents.).

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