Ng (pronounced Ang), She is believed to be the first female general manager in the four major North American professional sports leagues, and she’s also being saluted as a pioneering Asian American, even overseas.
Ng said at least 500 people have told her they’re now Marlins fans. She’s especially heartened to set an example for young girls who might aspire to a career in sports management.
Ng started her baseball career as a Chicago White Sox intern in 1990, and for the past nine years was a senior vice president for Major League Baseball.
She spent four years with the New York Yankees when their star shortstop was Derek Jeter, now the Marlins’ CEO.
Ng’s father introduced her to baseball, and she learned the game by playing stickball while in elementary school in Queens.
She attended her first game at Yankee Stadium in the late 1970s. She played shortstop for the University of Chicago’s softball team, and then began to climb the major league ranks.
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