O'Brien, a graduate of Notre Dame, covered the Texas Rangers for the Star-Telegram and then the New York Yankees for Newsday
A former sports reporter has claimed that she was raped by an unnamed Major League Baseball player in 2002.
Kat O'Brien described in The New York Times how she was attacked in a hotel room while interviewing the player as a 22-year-old junior reporter.
She had been out of college for a year and was working in Texas for The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. O'Brien spent the '02 season covering a story about how foreign players adjusted to life in the United States.
O'Brien wrote: 'I sat down in a hotel room with my interview subject. We spoke for a few minutes as I asked some questions and he answered. Then he moved suddenly to kiss me.
'I said, no, no, I don't want that, but he pushed me over to the bed. I tried to shove him. I said no, stop, no, stop, over and over. He pushed further, getting on top of me, pulling off my skirt, and having sex with me against my will.'
'While it was happening, I couldn't process that it was happening to me. I said no, again and again. Too terrified to move, I froze. Afterward, I remember getting in my car, shaking, to drive home, and looking at my blue-and-white skirt from Express, and thinking why did I have to be wearing a skirt? Because it was Texas in summer.
'I remember, once I got back to my apartment, drinking a bottle of red wine in a desperate attempt to numb my sadness and rage. Instead, I threw up all over the carpet.'
The former MLB writer, who did not name the team the player was on, said she never reported the attack because she was convinced it would wreck her career.
O'Brien, a graduate of Notre Dame, covered the Texas Rangers for the Star-Telegram and then the New York Yankees for Newsday.
'I knew that if I told anyone what happened that it would ruin my career. I was 22 with no track record,' O'Brien wrote, 'And at that time -
