Amanda Clement by Michael Ceraolo

 Amanda Clement

Way back in the nineteen-aughts,

in the days of the single umpire,

I showed that a woman could run a game

even though it wasn't at the professional level

Not everyone is cut out to be an umpire,

but that has nothing to do with gender

The paucity of female umpires

more than a century after me

shows some things haven't changed much