And as long as baseball has been a constant, so too has the umpire. The looming figure in blue with a booming voice and the personality of a junkyard dog has always been a unique character in the ...

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 players like to believe that they could call a game better than the umpire standing behind home plate. Now they’re finally getting a chance to prove it.

Home Plate Umpire Brian Walsh uses an earpiece to hear the electronic notification as to weather a pitch was a ball or a strike by the ABS system during a AAA minor league baseball game.

"It changes your whole day. You sleep better," he said. There's been enormous pressure on baseball to improve the accuracy of umpires. Missed calls can lead to lost tempers and ejections.