ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A day at the ‘ole ballpark is new again. 48-year-old Jen Pawol has become the first woman to umpire a Major League Baseball game.

“Once I started umpiring, I was like, ‘this is for me,’” Pawol said.

Pawol is working the Braves-Marlins series this weekend at Truist Park. It’s a groundbreaking moment that is inspiring other women in sports, like Natola Hawthorne.

“She was actually one of my instructors at MLB school. I was with her for five weeks learning the craft from her,” Hawthorne said.

Hawthorne has a story of her own to tell as the first black woman in the nation to umpire a Division 1 collegiate baseball game.

“I started in 2017, and it was after playing slow pitch softball and the way the people were going in on the officials, I thought that

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