In Locker Room Talk, Melissa Ludtke provides a first-hand account of what it was like to be at the center of a case that set off a media firestorm, with comedy sketches and newspaper cartoons depicting her as a leering intruder seeking to leer at athletes’ naked bodies. She takes us inside the ballparks where her presence as the lone female reporter covering the MLB threatened the sport’s sexist gatekeepers. She recreates the courtroom drama, describing the legal strategy that her lawyer, F.A.O. Schwarz Jr., used to persuade Constance Baker Motley, the first black woman to serve as a federal judge, to invoke the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause in ruling to allow female journalists the same access their male counterparts took for granted. Locker Room Talk is a vivid portrait of a vital moment for women’s rights.