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After nearly a decade climbing through the minor leagues, Jen Pawol is poised to break the umpiring gender barrier. “I’ve put the gas to full throttle and we are going for it. Full speed —

Pawol was given a full-time big league spring training schedule and could become the first women's to umpire a regular-season game.

Jen Pawol is on the verge of becoming Major League Baseball's first female umpire. The 47-year-old from New Jersey has bee selected to work a full-time big league spring training...

Jen Pawol is on the verge of becoming Major League Baseball's first woman umpire. The 47-year-old from New Jersey was among 24 umpires selected to work a full-time big league spring training schedule this year.

For Jen Pawol, the first female umpire to reach Triple A in 34 years, every play represents another step closer to the big leagues.

She fought through the courts for years for the right to umpire a professional baseball game. And after she won that fight and took the field for her first game, June 24, 1972, Bernice Gera retired. Now, 35 years later, she remains one of just five women ever to don

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This Week in History: June 19-25, 2017 for human events ever resemble those of preceding times.” Machiavelli June 19 1586 – English colonists sail away from Roanoke Island, North Carolina, after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in America. 1846 – The New York Knickerbocker Club plays the New York Club in the first baseball game at the Elysian Field in Hoboken, New Jersey. It is the first organized baseball game. 1867 – Ruthless wins the first Belmont Stakes ho...