A great day for baseball
Aug.9 was a historic day in Major League Baseball.
In the first game of a doubleheader between the Florida Marlins and the Atlanta Braves, 48-year-old Jen Pawol became the first woman to break Major League Baseball’s glass ceiling and umpired first base. She called balls and strikes behind home plate Aug. 10.
Pawol is the first of many more competent women still to come to umpire major league games, and I am sure that she will also become the answer to future trivia questions as long as Major League Baseball is played.
The recognition of the competency of women to be umpires at the major league level has been long overdue. Congratulations to Jen Pawol and all future female umpires.
If I may, I would like to quote astronaut Neil Armstrong, when he was the first person to set foot onto the moon and said, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Who knows? Perhaps we might even be willing to accept a woman to be president in the not-too-distant future!
Stan Zabierek
New Ipswich