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Cleveland girl had fun trying to crash Fenway press box

Female writer was blocked access by vote of peers

By Doris O’Donnell

 |  Cleveland News  

  May 22, 1957

Boston sports writers are sissies. The banned me from the all-male sanctuary -- the Red Sox press box -- because they are afraid to establish what they consider -- dangerous precedent.

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