Giants make Alyssa Nakken first female coach in MLB history

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Not much to add to this except to say that this is great news and makes me happy.
 

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Glad to hear it as well. She should be in the thread title. This is her accomplishment, not Gabe's.
 

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Is there any female coaches in the NHL? Seems all 3 other majors have at least one now:

NBA: Multiple, including Becky Hammon being one of the lead assistants on the Spurs
NFL: Katie Sowers is a WR coach for the niners
MLB: Alyssa Naaken
 

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Yay! (I went to a two-room school for eight grades and the only way we got ball games going was to include girls on the teams with boys.)
 

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Oh, Toni Stone, Mamie "Peanuts" Johnson, Connie Morgan were women who all played in the Negro Leagues and Effa Manley was the only woman to manage an all-male team and is in the Hall of Fame.
 

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If anyone wants to see the worst thing ever, go look at Aubrey Huff’s twitter feed on this subject. He’s subhuman. Won’t paste it and dignify it.
 

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Oh, Toni Stone, Mamie "Peanuts" Johnson, Connie Morgan were women who all played in the Negro Leagues and Effa Manley was the only woman to manage an all-male team and is in the Hall of Fame.
Effa Manley does not belong in the Hall of Fame. She did good things for equal rights but her relationship with baseball (white woman owning a Negro League team) is problematic. She wasn’t a manager in a y league that I am aware of.

and yes, she got in when the guy in my avatar didn’t, so yeah, I am not a fan of hers.
 

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It's great that the Giants are letting Kapler put together his own crew.


Here's a shocker (from wikipedia):

On January 27, 2007, Huff married Barbara "Baubi" Heaton. The couple has two sons . . . Baubi Huff filed for divorce on January 31, 2012. Although the two briefly reconciled, they eventually divorced and Huff claimed that a woman would only marry him for money.
 

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Effa Manley does not belong in the Hall of Fame. She did good things for equal rights but her relationship with baseball (white woman owning a Negro League team) is problematic. She wasn’t a manager in a y league that I am aware of.

and yes, she got in when the guy in my avatar didn’t, so yeah, I am not a fan of hers.
She was co-owner with her husband who was Black but when he died, she took over the club and I have seen several references to her managing from the stands. So I guess it comes down to who you want to believe.
 

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this is a wonderful and great I wish someone wouild condier Heidi waitley or Kelly nash for a manager job Heidi seems be too old school loves bochy but Nash couild be forward thinking
 

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She was co-owner with her husband who was Black but when he died, she took over the club and I have seen several references to her managing from the stands. So I guess it comes down to who you want to believe.
I want to believe that a part time manager doesn’t belong in the baseball HoF over Buck or many other trailblazers.