Mendoza calling a game in the booth

Jessica Mendoza in the ESPN broadcast booth, Nationals Stadium, Washington, D.C., 2019

In August 2015 Mendoza, from Camarillo, California, became the first woman to serve as commentator for Major League Baseball on ESPN. Later that year she became the first woman in MLB history to call a post-season game. From Clemente to Alvarado to Mendoza, Latinas/os are part of critical changes to the sport and often endured discrimination as they served as icons for others.

National Museum of American History, photograph by Jaclyn Nash