Daughter of Baseball Legend Leaves Giants for Talent Titan IMG

Just before Opening Day this month, Valerie Alou made the tough decision to leave her role as director of risk management for Major League Baseball’s San Francisco Giants—a team her father, legend Felipe Alou, once played for and managed.

She took a new in-house legal job at IMG Worldwide Inc., one of the world’s largest talent management agencies. She now works at IMG Academy headquarters, a 600-acre campus in Bradenton, Fla., where the company provides athletic and academic training to promising young athletes.

Alou said it was difficult to leave behind a job in a game that made her family ...