Major League Baseball’s Kim Ng smashes the glass ceiling

Ng is the first woman hired as a general manager in any major men’s professional sport in North America. A glass ceiling that has endured from Branch Rickey to George Halas, through the Michael Jordan and Patrick Kane eras, finally comes down.

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November 19, 2020 - 8:35 AM

Kim Ng, seen here in 2018, is the first woman to be named the general manager of a Major League Baseball team. Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune/TNS

Baseball is a game of milestones. Babe Ruth’s 714 career home runs, and Hank Aaron eclipsing Ruth with 755 round-trippers. Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in 1947. Cal Ripken Jr.’s 2,632 consecutive games. And, you know this paragraph could not end without mentioning the Chicago Cubs ending their 108-year World Series championship drought.

Now another big one: The Miami Marlins

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