OpinionMiami Marlins GM Kim Ng echoes Kamala Harris in making history for women and Asian-Americans
- America’s pastime now has its first female and Asian-American GM, echoing Kamala Harris heading to the White House as VP
- Widespread congratulations for historic hire at Miami Marlins but appointment has been a long time coming for Ng and MLB
Stats are perhaps more prevalent in baseball than any other sport so it is fitting that new Miami Marlins GM Kim Ng has made so much history in taking up the role.
The 51-year-old has become the first female GM in 117 years of Major League Baseball. She has become the first Asian-American GM – by virtue of also being the first Chinese-American GM, of course – as well as the first female to be appointed GM in any of the major North American Sports.
She’s shattered the glass ceiling and she’s crashed through the bamboo ceiling while she was at it. If you’re going to crash through one why not two? Get yourself a GM who can do both.
Congratulations are indeed in order and the world of baseball and beyond has just done that. Refreshingly much of it has come from the upper echelons of the game, which like many positions of power in sports, business and politics is the preserve of the old, white and male.
They are in agreement that Ng has earned this over the course of a 30-year career that began as a 21-year-old intern at the Chicago White Sox and saw her push the envelope as assistant GM at the New York Yankees, aged 29.