Alison Gordon

January 1, 1943 (age 72)

New York City, New York, United States of America

His work resulted in her living not only in New York, but also Tokyo, Cairo, and Rome. As a Toronto Star reporter, first assigned to cover the Toronto Blue Jays in 1979, she was one of Canada"s first prominent women sportswriters. This made her the first woman doing sports coverage of the American League. At the time, women sportswriters were so rare that her membership card in the Baseball Writers Association of America identified her as "Mr." Alison Gordon because the organization had made no provision for gender-neutral or female-specific cards. Gordon was also one of the first females allowed into a Major League Baseball locker room, which was controversial at the time but has since paved the way for many other female sports reporters. She previously worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Canadian Broadcasting Company) in radio and television, including as a producer for As lieutenant Happens. She later began publishing a series of murder mystery novels focusing on Kate Henry, a female sports reporter and amateur detective investigating murders in the professional baseball world. She wrote the afterword for the New Canadian Library edition of Connor"s novel The Manitoba from Glengarry. Gordon died in the Toronto East General Hospital on February 12, 2015, at the age of 72.

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Prairie Hardball

Alison Gordon Two-Book Bundle: The Dead Pull Hitter and Safe at Home (Kate Henry)

( Trouble has a way of finding sports journalist Kate Hen...)

Alison Gordon Five-Book Bundle: The Dead Pull Hitter, Safe at Home, Night Game, Striking Out, and Prairie Hardball (Kate Henry)

( Trouble has a way of finding sports journalist Kate Hen...)

The Dead Pull Hitter: A Kate Henry Mystery

(I’m Katherine Henry. My friends call me Kate. I am a base...)

Striking Out

(It is the summer of 1994 and the major-league baseball pl...)

PRAIRIE HARDBALL - A Kate Henry Baseball Mystery

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Background

Gordon was born in New York City where her journalist/diplomat father, J. King Gordon, worked (and later served with the United Nations).

Education

Gordon attended Queen"s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada but left before completing a degree.

Career

His work resulted in her living not only in New York, but also Tokyo, Cairo, and Rome. As a Toronto Star reporter, first assigned to cover the Toronto Blue Jays in 1979, she was one of Canada"s first prominent women sportswriters. This made her the first woman doing sports coverage of the American League.

At the time, women sportswriters were so rare that her membership card in the Baseball Writers Association of America identified her as "Mr." Alison Gordon because the organization had made no provision for gender-neutral or female-specific cards.

Gordon was also one of the first females allowed into a Major League Baseball locker room, which was controversial at the time but has since paved the way for many other female sports reporters. She previously worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Canadian Broadcasting Company) in radio and television, including as a producer for As lieutenant Happens.

She later began publishing a series of murder mystery novels focusing on Kate Henry, a female sports reporter and amateur detective investigating murders in the professional baseball world. She wrote the afterword for the New Canadian Library edition of Connor"s novel The Manitoba from Glengarry.

Gordon died in the Toronto East General Hospital on February 12, 2015, at the age of 72.