Lisa Nehus Saxon

{{Blockquote|Going into the locker room, knots would get in my stomach; it was actually a physically uncomfortable thing to do because you didn't know what you would face. At the very least, you would have jockstraps thrown at you, and dirty undergarments. And that was an everyday occurrence. And then you would just build onto that what might happen. And you just hoped for the best when you went in.}}

{{Blockquote|Going into the locker room, knots would get in my stomach; it was actually a physically uncomfortable thing to do because you didn't know what you would face. At the very least, you would have jockstraps thrown at you, and dirty undergarments. And that was an everyday occurrence. And then you would just build onto that what might happen. And you just hoped for the best when you went in.}}

At one point the abuse became so horrific that Angels players [[George Hendrick]] and [[John Candelaria]] stepped in to create a human shield between Saxon and one of her critics, [[Reggie Jackson]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/lisa-saxon-the-woman-who-helped-change-sports-writing-forever/ |title=Lisa Saxon, the Woman Who Helped Change Sports Writing Forever |website=sports.vice.com |date=November 17, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150718210248/https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/lisa-saxon-the-woman-who-helped-change-sports-writing-forever |archive-date=2015-07-18}}</ref> Saxon said she did not go public with much of the abuse, because she feared that doing so would derail the ongoing efforts to allow women to have equal access to the team clubhouses.{{citation needed|date=June 2025}}

At one point the abuse became so horrific that Angels players [[George Hendrick]] and [[John Candelaria]] stepped in to create a human shield between Saxon and one of her critics, [[Reggie Jackson]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/lisa-saxon-the-woman-who-helped-change-sports-writing-forever/ |title=Lisa Saxon, the Woman Who Helped Change Sports Writing Forever |website=sports.vice.com |date=November 17, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150718210248/https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/lisa-saxon-the-woman-who-helped-change-sports-writing-forever |archive-date=2015-07-18}}</ref> Saxon said she did not go public with much of the abuse, because she feared that doing so would derail the ongoing efforts to allow women to have equal access to the team clubhouses.

Saxon won numerous writing awards{{which|date=June 2025}} during her journalism career, which spanned four decades.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-mar-01-sp-31804-story.html|title = Archives|website = [[Los Angeles Times]]| date=March 2001 }}</ref> She also worked at the Long Beach Press-Telegram and Riverside Press-Enterprise.{{citation needed|date=June 2025}} In 2001, she began teaching Media, at [[Santa Monica College]] and [[Palisades Charter High School]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smc.edu/AcademicPrograms/Communication/Pages/Lisa-Nehus-Saxon.aspx/ |title=Lisa Nehus Saxon |website=www.smc.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018211026/http://www.smc.edu/AcademicPrograms/Communication/Pages/Lisa-Nehus-Saxon.aspx/ |archive-date=2016-10-18}}</ref>

Saxon won numerous writing awards during her journalism career, which spanned four decades.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-mar-01-sp-31804-story.html|title = Archives|website = [[Los Angeles Times]]| date=March 2001 }}</ref> She also worked at the Long Beach Press-Telegram and Riverside Press-Enterprise.{{citation needed|date=June 2025}} In 2001, she began teaching Media, at [[Santa Monica College]] and [[Palisades Charter High School]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smc.edu/AcademicPrograms/Communication/Pages/Lisa-Nehus-Saxon.aspx/ |title=Lisa Nehus Saxon |website=www.smc.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018211026/http://www.smc.edu/AcademicPrograms/Communication/Pages/Lisa-Nehus-Saxon.aspx/ |archive-date=2016-10-18}}</ref>

Saxon received a bachelor's degree in journalism from [[California State University, Northridge]] in 1983 and a graduate degree from [[Mount St. Mary's University]] in 2009. She left journalism in 2001 to become an educator. In 2016 and 2017, she was a featured speaker at events sponsored by the [[Baseball Reliquary]]. Saxon also appeared in some episodes of "The Sweet Spot, A Treasury of Baseball Stories," an anthology series by Jon Leonoudakis.{{citation needed|date=June 2025}}

Saxon received a bachelor's degree in journalism from [[California State University, Northridge]] in 1983 and a graduate degree from [[Mount St. Mary's University]] in 2009. She left journalism in 2001 to become an educator. In 2016 and 2017, she was a featured speaker at events sponsored by the [[Baseball Reliquary]]. Saxon also appeared in some episodes of "The Sweet Spot, A Treasury of Baseball Stories," an anthology series by Jon Leonoudakis.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lisa Saxon reflects on being one of the first women in sportswriting |url=https://laist.com/shows/airtalk/lisa-saxon-reflects-on-being-one-of-the-first-women-in-sportswriting |access-date=2025-07-05 |website=LAist |language=en}}</ref>

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