Baseball's Girl Umpire

_________________ couldn’t wait to join her brother, Hank, and the boys for a game of baseball.

• Amanda Clement

• Amanda Strike

• Amanda Thompson

Amanda could ______ with her brothers on the ball field.

• run

• throw

• bat

• all of the above.

Amanda and her mother traveled to Hawarden, Iowa, to watch her brother Hank pitch in the championship semi-professional game. Amanda became the umpire.

• True

• False

Baseball's Girl Umpire by Glenna Marra is a(n) ______ text.

• Persuasive

• Instructional

• Entertaining

As Amanda finished the morning game, she saw two men walking toward her. To her surprise, they were the managers of the semipro teams. They

• asked her to umpire NBA games in the winter.

• wanted Amanda to stop umpiring baseball games forever.

• were unimpressed with her umpiring and wanted her to

  not call the afternoon championship game.

• were impressed with her umpiring and wanted her to

  call the afternoon championship game.

Amanda’s career as an umpire lasted six years. She called about 50 games each summer and was paid a top fee for the time, $15 to $25 a game. With her earnings, Amanda paid for college, where she

studied _________.

• architecture

• biology

• physical education

• sports and medicine

In those early days of baseball, crowds threw bottles at male umpires and shouted insults like “Kill the umpire!” Amanda received the same type of comments and comments such as “Big idiot!", Miss Blind Umpire!!"

• True

• False

Which quote was said by Amanda Clement in the passage?

• "I'm the best there ever was behind the plate!"

• "The boys were scared to let me play!"

• "You’ve got to have confidence in your ability or you won’t do well at anything.”

• "I'm glad to be in the baseball hall of fame!"

Check all that apply... Many years later, other women followed in Amanda’s footsteps as umpires. Today, women are referees in professional:

• soccer

• basketball

• football

• tennis

The large crowd watched in disbelief as the 5-foot-10-inch __-year-old took her position behind the pitcher’s mound, where umpires stood. She was about to become the first female paid to umpire a baseball game

• 16

• 18

• 21

• 24