Pam Postema

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[edit] Pam Postema

• Born 1954 in Norwalk, OH USA
• Height 5'8", Weight 140 lb.

Pam Postema was the first female umpire to work major league spring training games. There was hope in the 1980s that she would be called up to the major leagues but these hopes were later dashed.

Postema began in the Gulf Coast League in 1977-78. She spent two years in the Class-A Florida State League, two years in the AA Texas League and arrived in the Pacific Coast League in 1983. Postema worked seven years in the PCL, worked a Hall of Fame Game.

Many believe the death of Commissioner Giamatti, ended Postema's career as she was not renewed in the months after Giamatti's sudden death in 1999.

In 1991, she filed a sex-discrimination law suit against Major League Baseball. The case was settled out of court in 1997.