“To do my job, I had to be there too.”

Guest post: Melissa Ludtke on the pain and struggle to get into the club(house).

In 1977, Melissa Ludtke was a 26-year-old sportswriter for Sports Illustrated. Bowie Kuhn was the utterly disastrous commissioner of baseball. Obviously, something astonishingly stupid and wrong was going to happen.

And it did happen during the World Series. Ludtke just wanted to do her job, and doing her job then—and now, but even more so then—required …