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For seven seasons, Kim Ng has been second in command. Now, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the franchise that broke Major League Baseball's color barrier, may be ready to bridge one of baseball's more malleable gaps, that of gender.
Ng is one of the game's longest tenured and most respected Assistant General Managers. For the last four seasons, Ng has worked for the Los Angeles Dodgers. For four years before that, she was Brian Cashman's understudy in New York City. Now that the Dodgers don't have an official General Manager, Ng is serving as the Assistant to, well, no one, and the Dodgers may be willing to finally promote one of the most deserving people in the game.
According to reports out of Los Angeles, Ng was the first candidate formally interviewed for LA's open GM job. It seems that she is also a candidate for vacancy in Boston.
I say, it's about time. Baseball has long been the boy's club. From the front office to the press box, females in baseball are seemingly a rare breed. Bud Selig's high level executives are all men. Most owners, the infamous exception being Marge Schott, are men, and every General Manager in the history of the game has been male.
Lately, we've seen women making some strides in the game. Suzyn Waldman, for better or for worse, became the first female color commentator as she joined John Sterling in the Yankee radio booth. Ria Cortesio, the only female umpire in professional baseball, has been invited back to her mid-level minor league job.
But with Ng, the Dodgers, Red Sox, anyone who interviews her really have no excuse. She has more experience as the Assistant General Manager than, as far as I know, anyone else in the game. She's well-respected among her peers, the game's other General Managers. Now would be as ideal a time as any for a team to anoint her as the General Manager. She wouldn't be a female General Manager. Rather, she would be just another General Manager who happens to be female.
The Dodgers, long known for the firsts, could make history again. They could be the team to hire the first female General Manager and the first General Manager with no vowels in her last name in one swoop.
Ng is one of the game's longest tenured and most respected Assistant General Managers. For the last four seasons, Ng has worked for the Los Angeles Dodgers. For four years before that, she was Brian Cashman's understudy in New York City. Now that the Dodgers don't have an official General Manager, Ng is serving as the Assistant to, well, no one, and the Dodgers may be willing to finally promote one of the most deserving people in the game.
According to reports out of Los Angeles, Ng was the first candidate formally interviewed for LA's open GM job. It seems that she is also a candidate for vacancy in Boston.
I say, it's about time. Baseball has long been the boy's club. From the front office to the press box, females in baseball are seemingly a rare breed. Bud Selig's high level executives are all men. Most owners, the infamous exception being Marge Schott, are men, and every General Manager in the history of the game has been male.
Lately, we've seen women making some strides in the game. Suzyn Waldman, for better or for worse, became the first female color commentator as she joined John Sterling in the Yankee radio booth. Ria Cortesio, the only female umpire in professional baseball, has been invited back to her mid-level minor league job.
But with Ng, the Dodgers, Red Sox, anyone who interviews her really have no excuse. She has more experience as the Assistant General Manager than, as far as I know, anyone else in the game. She's well-respected among her peers, the game's other General Managers. Now would be as ideal a time as any for a team to anoint her as the General Manager. She wouldn't be a female General Manager. Rather, she would be just another General Manager who happens to be female.
The Dodgers, long known for the firsts, could make history again. They could be the team to hire the first female General Manager and the first General Manager with no vowels in her last name in one swoop.
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