PORTLAND, Maine — The first thing to know about Jen Pawol — and listen closely because this is important — is that she would rather no one know much about her at all. Professional umpires are professionally inconspicuous, and women in baseball always have known the key to a life in baseball is the ability to blend.
MLB is overdue for a female umpire. One may be on the way.
Jen Pawol, a baseball umpire in the minors, is schooled in the game and those who came before her.
