Slusser was elected as the vice-president of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) in October 2011.[3] The next year, she was voted the president of the BBWAA, the first woman to serve in the role.[4] In 2014, she was elected to the BBWAA board.[5]
She has published two books, 100 Things A’s Fans Need to Know and Do Before They Die in 2014, and If These Walls Could Talk, Tales from the Oakland A’s Dugout, Locker Room and Press Box, co-authored with Ken Korach, in 2019.[1]
Awards
The National Sports Media Association named Slusser and fellow Chronicle sports scribe Ann Killion co-California Sportswriters of the Year in 2019.[6] Slusser was the first team beat sportswriter to win the award.[6]
In 2017, she won a Northern California Area Emmy for her work on "SportsTalk Live: Women in Sports Media".[1] She has also won recognition from the San Francisco Press Club, the Peninsula Press Club, and the Association for Women in Sports Media.[1]
Personal life
Slusser met her husband, Dan Brown, in 1990 when she was a reporter for the Bee and he was a University of California Davis student reporter; Brown now works as a sportswriter for The Athletic.[7][8]