MILWAUKEE — To baseball umpires, timing matters. By the time registration opened at 8 a.m., more than 100 aspiring professional umpires had already arrived at the Milwaukee Brewers ballpark for Major ...

Jen Pawol is set to become the first woman to umpire in Major League Baseball when she works games this weekend between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves. Pawol will work the bases in Saturday's ...

Baseball umpire Jen Pawol made history Saturday in Atlanta as she became the first woman to umpire a Major League Baseball regular season game. Pawol worked at first base in Game 1 of the Atlanta ...

Jen Pawol continues to make history as a female baseball umpire. Pawol is scheduled to be behind the plate for the Braves and Marlins series finale on Sunday, Aug. 10 at Truist Park in Atlanta. She ...

Pawol will be on the diamond during the Marlins and Braves' regular season games on Saturday and Sunday Madison E. Goldberg received her B.S. in Journalism and double minors in publishing and ...

There aren’t many fancy glass options in the belly of baseball stadiums, though the no-frills celebration with more than a dozen family and friends — following Game 2 of the doubleheader between the ...

Violet Palmer became the first woman to referee an NBA game in 1997. Sarah Thomas was the first female to officiate an NFL game in 2015. In 2022, Stephanie Frappart became the first woman referee in a ...

When Jen Pawol took the field as an MLB umpire at Atlanta’s Truist Park on Aug. 9, it made history. For the first time, a female umpire worked a regular season MLB game. For the first time, the dream ...