According to Variety, Susan Fornoff’s book, Lady in the Locker Room, is going to be made into a movie.

I knew Fornoff way back when she was covering the Oakland A’s for the Sacramento Bee. Unfortunately, she found herself in the news when Dave Kingman, one of the all-time idiots, sent her a rat for reasons only he can explain.

I’m sure that episode will find the way into the film. Hopefully, the filmmakers will find a good actor who knows how to play a boorish oaf.

Also, they will make a good movie in keeping with last year’s Let Them Wear Towels documentary about women sportswriters on ESPN.

Tatiana Siegel reports in Variety:

CBS Films and Last Vegas helmer Jon Turteltaub are reteaming for a period film about one of the first female sports reporters to break the gender barrier. 

The company has acquired a pitch by Joel Silverman based on Susan Fornoff‘s book Lady in the Locker Room. The deal also includes Fornoff’s life rights.

Turteltaub is attached to direct and produce with Karim Zreik (Common Law). Silverman will write the screenplay.

In the 1980s, Fornoff fought to secure equal rights for female sports journalists, insisting they deserved the same access to athletes as their male colleagues. At the time, most sports leagues barred women from entering the locker room, which made it difficult for writers like Fornoff to do their jobs. Fornoff, who worked for papers including USA Today and the Sacramento Bee, finally smashed that barrier, becoming one of the first women to enter the locker room. The movie will chronicle her hilarious and harrowing journey to thrive in this ultimate man’s world.