article_snippet.sent: Ria Cortesio, Minor League Baseball .
article_snippet.sent: Ria Cortesio, pictured at a Double-A game between the Jacksonville Suns and the Montgomery Biscuits in 2007, was fired the same year .
article_snippet.sent: Ria Cortesio was the face of female umpiring in baseball for many years in the mid-2000s.
article_snippet.sent: Ria Cortesio spent nine years in the minor leagues, with the highest being the Double-A Southern League, according to the Houston Chronicle.
article_snippet.sent: Ria Cortesio was also the first woman since Pamela Postema to umpire an exhibition game when Ria Cortesio worked a spring training match-up between the Chicago Cubs and Arizona Diamondbacks.
article_snippet.sent: Ria Cortesio also worked the Home Run Derby at the 2006 All-Star Game in Pittsburgh.
article_snippet.sent: umpire rating in Double-A slipped during the 2007 season and Ria Cortesio was let go in the autumn of that year, according to ESPN.