MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Major League Baseball’s first female general manager Kim Ng is in Miami.
The Miami Marlins announced the historic hiring on Friday and Monday she fielded questions from the media during a virtual news conference at Marlins Park.
Ng is not only the highest-ranking woman in baseball operations, she is the first female GM among the four major professional sports leagues in North America and the first Asian-American GM in MLB history.
She described how the last 72 hours have been extraordinary and she has received well over a thousand congratulatory emails and text messages.