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Jen Pawol Becomes First Woman To Umpire MLB Game This Weekend
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.
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nytimes.com
MLB’s first female umpire set to debut; Jen Pawol to be promoted for Saturday’s Marlins-Braves games
Pawol, a veteran minor league umpire, will be the first female to umpire a regular season MLB game when she debuts on Saturday.
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She wanted to be baseball’s first female umpire. Baseball fought her every step of the way
“I don’t want to hurt baseball,” Bernice Gera once said. “All I want is a job. My whole life is baseball.”
