Jeannie Morris, Trailblazing Chicago Sportscaster, Dies at 85
She was a rare woman in broadcast sports journalism when she began her career in the late 1960s, but she helped pave the way for the many women who followed.
Jeannie Morris in 1983. Her first break in sports came in 1968 when her husband, a former pro football player, recommended that the newspaper Chicago’s American hire her to write a weekly column.Credit.Chicago Sun-Times
Published Dec. 24, 2020Updated Dec. 31, 2020
Jeannie Morris, a television sports reporter, was in the visitors’ dugout in 1972 before a game at Comiskey Park in Chicago when the Hall of Fame hitter Ted Williams, who was managing the Texas Rangers, ordered her out.