Kim Ng, AB’90, made headlines—and history—when she became the first-ever woman to serve as a general manager in Major League Baseball.
That landmark achievement had Chicago roots: Ng got her first job in professional baseball, an internship with the White Sox, just months after graduating from the College. A softball standout and public policy major at UChicago, Ng wrote her senior thesis on Title IX, a law that “explained why I had a lot of the opportunities that I did, and how much work we still had to do,” she told The University of Chicago Magazine in 2018.
After seven years with the White Sox, Ng went on to serve as assistant general manager for both the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Long regarded as a strong general manager candidate, she got the job in 2020. As GM of the Miami Marlins, Ng led the team to its first full-season playoff berth in two decades.
Since leaving the Marlins in 2024, Ng has returned to softball, the sport in which she once excelled as a player. She currently serves as the commissioner for Athletes Unlimited Softball League, which now boasts a 25-game regular season and six US teams. Ng’s aspiration, she told the Los Angeles Times, is to make AUSL “the MLB of professional softball.”