When Katie Krall advanced to the interview stage for Major League Baseball’s diversity fellowship in 2017, she remembers receiving the email at 5 p.m. on Friday.
It was a largely generic email telling her that she advanced to the next phase and that she’d be speaking with Kim Ng from the Commissioner’s Office the following week. She was stunned when she saw Ng’s name.
“I remember describing to my family members and friends, she is the Michael Jordan of female baseball executives,” said Krall, now a baseball operations analyst for the Cincinnati Reds.
Krall, a Park Ridge, Illinois native, grew up with a love for baseball.