Professional umpires are professionally inconspicuous, and women in baseball always have known the key to a life in baseball is the ability to blend. The second thing to know about Jen Pawol ...

Major League Baseball has had female coaches and general managers and scouts and all-women broadcast teams. But there has never been a female umpire in the big leagues. Women have umpired major ...

A fired minor league umpire sued Major League Baseball on Wednesday, claiming he was sexually harassed by a female umpire and discriminated against because he is male and bisexual. Brandon Cooper ...

NEW YORK — Jen Pawol is on the verge becoming Major League Baseball’s first female umpire. The 47-year-old from New Jersey was selected to work a full-time big league spring training schedule ...

The former Hofstra softball star again will umpire MLB games in spring training ... In MLB’s 121-year history, only a handful of women have umpired even minor-league games.

Pettipas, who lived in Slemon Park and taught school in P.E.I., died after a long and courageous battle with cancer on Jan. 6 ...

Jen Pawol is one step closer to becoming Major League Baseball's first female umpire. Pawol has been named a Triple-A crew chief for the upcoming season and is on MLB's call-up list, reports Newsday.

“She’s a natural because she has been around softball her whole life,” said Cambria. “I think having female umpires in a tournament like this is great. The girls can relate to ...

Sporting events at the college and pro levels tend to go on until the pre-determined time to end the game, with the exception of overtime or extra innings. A matchup can be a completely lopsided ...

Is there a pitch clock in college softball and the Women's College World Series? Here's what you need to know for the NCAA softball tournament.