by admin | Apr 22, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
WHEN KIM NG was hired by the Miami Marlins as their general manager this past MLB offseason, she received ringing endorsements from Michelle Obama, Sharon Robinson and Billie Jean King. In January, she was invited by President Joe Biden to participate...
by admin | Apr 21, 2021 | Guest Blogs, SEW
The road paved for women to participate and excel in athletics has been a long one, with many twists and turns. In fact, the road women have taken to even get close to equal opportunity has passed mountains that had to be moved, along...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Leadership, SEW
After years of being passed over, in November Ng became the first woman to be named GM of a North American professional men’s team. Landing the Marlins job was a breakthrough, but Ng knows that to keep it—and help others like her follow—she’ll have to win. Read...
by admin | Apr 1, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The umpires in baseball are often taken for granted, like the field geometry, the bases, the fair poles and the seats in the stands. Except for those moments when a decision angers one team or the other, umpires are part of the background to the game. Perhaps that...
by admin | Mar 22, 2021 | Leadership, SEW
Jose Altuve was the little guy and Aaron Judge was the big guy. Max Scherzer was the guy with different-colored eyes and Mike Yastrzemski was the guy with the famous grandfather. None of them were pioneers, but at first they stood out for something beyond their...
by admin | Mar 6, 2021 | Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week we offer our congratulations and our top highlight to Maia Chaka, who was hired as the first Black female game official in the NFL. Following Sarah Thomas’s turn as the first female to officiate a Super Bowl we look forward to seeing more females...
by admin | Mar 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
When Bianca Smith landed a job as a minor league coach in the Boston Red Sox organization, becoming the first Black woman to coach professional baseball, she thought about her mother. Her mom died of cancer in 2013 and would have been proud of her daughter’s...
by admin | Mar 4, 2021 | Leadership, SEW
Kim Ng took her seat on the chartered jet. As assistant general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, she was joining the team on a road trip in 2008. Soon the Dodgers players started filing onto the plane, and a flight attendant began taking drink orders from...
by admin | Mar 2, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
When Cleveland Indians team president Chris Antonetti addressed the media on Feb. 4, he opened his virtual news conference by telling reporters in a somber tone that he was “disturbed, distraught and saddened” by the allegations against former Indians pitching coach...
by admin | Mar 1, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
“When we hired Mickey, Mickey was the hot commodity,” Alderson said Monday. “There were a number of teams that were anxious to talk to him and possibly sign him to a contract. We felt very fortunate at the time to get him based on his reputation in...
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