The Chronicle

About this Author

Susan Slusser has worked at The San Francisco Chronicle since 1996 and has covered the A’s fulltime since 1999. She has been a member of the Baseball Writers Association of America since 1993 and in 2012 became the only woman to be elected president in the 111 years of the organization. In 2019, she and Chronicle columnist Ann Killion were named the co-California Sportswriters of the Year; Susan is the first team beat writer in the state’s history to win the award.

Slusser’s book about the A’s, 100 Things A's Fans Need to Know and Do Before They Die, came out in 2014 and she and A’s radio announcer Ken Korach released a new book, If These Walls Could Talk, Tales from the Oakland A’s Dugout, Locker Room and Press Box, in 2019. She is also a correspondent for the MLB Network.