Anita Marie Martini, born in 1939, was an American sports journalist and broadcaster. She was the first woman to cover a major league baseball All-Star Game in 1973 and the first allowed into a baseball locker room after the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Houston Astros at the Astrodome to win the National League West pennant in 1974. Based in Houston for most of her career, she worked for radio and Television stations in the city from the mid-1960s until shortly before her death. Martini was born in Galveston, Texas where her father operated the holding corporation of the historic Martini Theater. She was exposed to baseball as a young child through her uncle, a professional baseball player, who she would often accompany to ballparks. By the 1960s, Martini worked for and then owned a Houston publication called FUN Magazine. Her broadcast career began in 1965, mostly for Houston stations. She spent 14 years at KPRC Radio and appeared on KPRC-TV, KHTV and KULF Radio. She was the first woman in a major radio market to co-host a sports talk show (with Mike Edmonds on KPRC Radio, 1972-1979 and 1986-1991). For the first part of Martini's career, no woman from the media had ever been admitted into a men's locker room in professional sports. At the Astrodome, women were also not allowed on the playing field or in the dining room. On October 1, 1974, immediately after the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Houston Astros to finish in first place in win the National League West division title, Martini lined up with male reporters to enter the Dodgers locker room. She was first refused access and asked to speak with Dodgers manager Walter Alston. However, he allowed her to come into the locker room where Martini conducted interviews with Alston and with Dodgers players Steve Garvey and Jimmy Wynn. A lawsuit was later filed against MLB that established the rights of female reporters to enter baseball locker rooms. Martini had a long tenure in Houston, but in a 1975 interview with Sports Illustrated, she expressed disappointment at never getting a chance at a national broadcasting job.