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.

Pawol, a veteran minor league umpire, will be the first female to umpire a regular season MLB game when she debuts on Saturday.

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

Jen Pawol is making some Major League Baseball history as she is getting called up to work the Braves-Marlins series as the league's first female umpire.

One of the umpires in this weekend's Marlins-Braves series this weekend will be the first woman to umpire in a Major League Baseball game.

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.

Debutterà dietro alla «casa base» nelle due partite tra i Marlins e i Braves ad Atlanta di sabato prossimo

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

Baseball umpire Jen Pawol made history Saturday in Atlanta as she became the first woman to umpire a Major League Baseball regular season game.