article_snippet.sent: Women umpires in baseball have only reached the Triple-A and preseason game levels.
article_snippet.sent: Pamela Postema, MLB Spring Training .
article_snippet.sent: Female MLB umpire Pamela Postema calls balls and strikes behind the plate at a a Kansas City Royals game in 1992 .
article_snippet.sent: Pamela Postema was not the first woman to umpire a professional baseball game, with Pamela Postema first innings come five years after Bernice Gera sued Major League Baseball to preside over a minor league contest in 1972.
article_snippet.sent: However, Pamela Postema became a fixture in the professional games everywhere but 'The Show' in the 1980s.
article_snippet.sent: Pamela Postema spent seven years in Triple-A, the league directly below the majors, and even made it to spring training games in 1988 and 1989.
article_snippet.sent: However, Pamela Postema was controversially fired in 1989 after the death of Female MLB commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti, who had been considered supportive of Pamela Postema career.
article_snippet.sent: Pamela Postema filed a sex discrimination lawsuit after the firing ended Pamela Postema well-regarded career, which was settled out of court.