Meanwhile, Blais received similar treatment, as she reported in her article published the next day: If any one group has to be educated about female sportswriters it’s the male reporters themselves. They sit in the press gallery with their cigars invariably poking out of their mouths, wearing hats and saying: You’re ruining our racket.31 This hit the nail on the head. The women who began to arrive in larger numbers discovered that the white men who controlled these corners of the ballpark—and, therefore, sports journalism—had been running a racket for years. Men weren’t occupying these
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