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.
Today in High Prairie: June 15, 2023 - southpeacenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from southpeacenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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