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ATLANTA – When Jen Pawol walks onto the field at Truist Park this weekend, she won’t just be making history — she’ll be cashing in on a decades-long grind through the most thankless job in sports.

On Saturday afternoon, Pawol will become the first female umpire to work a regular-season Major League Baseball game, handling the bases in Game 1 of the Atlanta Braves-Miami Marlins doubleheader before moving behind the plate for Sunday’s series finale.

She was sitting in a Nashville hotel room on Wednesday when the news came down.

“I was overcome with emotion,” Pawol told the Associated Press on Thursday. “It was super emotional to finally be living that phone call that I’d been hoping for and working towards for quite a while, and I just felt sup

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