“I don’t want to hurt baseball,” Bernice Gera once said. “All I want is a job. My whole life is baseball.”

“I don’t want to hurt baseball,” Bernice Gera once said. “All I want is a job. My whole life is baseball.”

MLB’s move comes 28 years after the gender barrier for game officials was broken in the NBA, and 10 years after the NFL hired its first full-time female official.

Jen Pawol was in her hotel room in Nashville, Tennessee, when she got the call she had awaited for a decade.