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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Women umpires
Good piece by Alex, with this little tidbit:
Sargeant made more serious allegations regarding a former minor league umpire, Ria Cortesio, who in 2007 became the first woman in 18 years to work a major league exhibition game, and then was fired later that year. According to people Sargeant talked to, Cortesio was the top-ranked AA umpire going into the 2007 season, and would have been eligible for promotion as soon as a retirement created an opening. So, in order to block her promotion, the AAA umpires agreed that none of them would retire until the umpires were re-ranked and Cortesio was no longer at the top of the list. At the end of the season, Cortesio was let go because the minor leagues has a policy to terminate any umpire who has not been promoted within three to five years, and it was her fifth season.
Where are the lady quantitative analysts?
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