Rhonda Pauls remembers the thrill of being a young umpire and making that close call at home plate: “You’re out!”
She also remembers that shrinking feeling of seeing an enraged coach charge out of the dugout to tell her, among other things, that she’s wrong.
“It was terrifying for me,” Pauls said.
“Especially as a female on the field with, you know, large men and you have someone bearing down on you, red in the face, spitting sunflower seeds in your face, waving their arms, telling you that you’re terrible and you made the wrong call and you’ve ruined the game for everybody.
“It doesn’t
