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When I was a "copy boy" on the Cleveland News in 1947, Doris O'Donnell was a young news reporter. I admired her very much and wanted to be just like her. She was reputedly involved romantically with another reporter, a married man, but I never learned how that situation turned out. When I met the man who was to be my husband -- he was my college history professor -- he persuaded me to enter education instead of newspaper work. I didn't hear of Doris again until I read about her exploit in trying to be a bona fide member of the sports-writing press corp in 1957 and being rejected. "That could have been me," I thought at the time. Little did I know that my own destiny would lie with baseball history, as the wife and collaborator of Dr. Harold Seymour, the first historian to write baseball history. And now I'm writing my 18th book, to be published in 2004 by McFarland: My Life in Baseball. I think Doris would be interested in it.
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