Jessica Mendoza
ESSICA MENDOZA, THE GLASS-SHATTERING baseball broadcaster who is the first woman, in any major American men’s team sport, to serve as top color commentator for a national network, never envisioned this: walking through Fenway Park, on her way to calling baseball’s prime-time game of the week, talking veggies with Jennifer Lopez. But on this perfect New England summer evening, the former Olympic softball player is indeed pointing out to Lopez—who’s in town to hang out with fiancé Alex Rodriguez, Mendoza’s ESPN broadcast partner—the urban farm the Boston Red Sox planted on a Fenway roof a few years ago. (J. Lo seems mildly impressed.) For this game between the Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers, ESPN has perched the broadcast booth atop the Green Monster in
