European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes Friday december 22,1989 baseball ends Postema s shot As major league ump Pam Postema. Out of baseball by Jim Litkea sports writer Pam Postema never wanted to be a cause and now she won t be a big league Umpire either. Stalled at the threshold of triple a for seven tumultuous years she has been handed her walking papers by baseball. "1 got my evaluation and the Only thing it said was that i ejected too Many people Postema said in a Telephone interview from Phoenix where she was Back at her of season Job driving a ups delivery truck. That and that my Atti tude went downhill at the end of the sea son. It s too bad. I would have been goo for the game. I have a lot of integrity and i would t have embarrassed anybody that s for sure. I could understand it if they said 1 was t Good enough or i was t Strong enough on the balls and strikes or 1 could t handle the bases or whatever. But this was just outrageous and it tells me they be got to be Postema 35, came into the business in 1978 As Only the third woman Umpire in professional baseball and four year Slater became the first promoted past a. She always insisted she cared not for pioneering the women s cause but Nei ther did she let her gender get in the Way. Postema s tenure in the game was marked by Many of the incidents com Mon to members of the fraternity she was spat on cursed at and had a Collar Bone broken because a Young Catcher mishandled a fastball and a few that sabres tie rangers on Mogiln s goal new York soviet Rookie Al expander Mogiln s goal Early in the third period wednesday night gave Buffalo a 2-2 tie with the rangers extending the sabres unbeaten Streak against new York to eight games. Mogiln who defected from the soviet Union in May ripped a 20 foot wrist shot just under the crossbar at 2 31 of the final period. The tic gave the sabres a 7-0-1 Mark against the rangers since new York s last Victory on feb. 24, 1987, and a 4-0-1 Mark in their last five visits to mad Ison Square Garden. With Philadelphia Idle the rang ers moved into a first place tie with the flyers in the Patrick division. In other games wednesday whalers 4, Bruins 3 Hartford Conn. Hartford Center Ron Francis scored his 17th goal on a deflection with 25 second left to lift the whalers Over Adams division rival Boston. Todd Krygier de Kastelic and Dean Evason also scored for Hart Ford 18-17-1, which went Over .500 for the first time since nov. 14. The whalers arc 7-3 since nov. 30. Andy Brickley Craig Janancy and Randy Burridge scored for Boston. Red wings 4, Maple Leafs 2 Detroit goaltender Glen Hanlon turned aside 26 shots and Joe Kostir snapped a 1-1 lie with a second period goal to Lead Detroit Over Toronto. The red wings 5-2-2 in their last nine games cooled off the Maple Leafs nil Roundup winners of five of their last six. Blackhawk 9, blues 6 Chicago Dirk Graham Jere my Roc Nick Dave Manson and Adam Creighton scored the fastest four goals in Chicago history in the final period lifting the Blackhawk sover St. Louis. The Blackhawk sixth win in seven games boosted their Lead Over second place Minnesota in the Norris Divi Sion to six Points. Brett Hull who had two first period goals for St. Louis had tied the score at 5 with a third period goal at 6 02. The blues took a 6-5 Lead on Jeff Brown s second goal of the game before the Blackhawk rallied. Graham tied the score at 6, Jam Ming in his ninth goal at 11 53, and Roc Nick followed with his sixth 23seconds later for the game Winner. Manson s 55-foot slap shot at 12 52 gave the Blackhawk an 8-6 Lead. Then Creighton s second goal of the game at 13 49 gave Chicago its fourth goal within 1 56 and broke the old Mark of 2 03 for the fastest four goals Ever by a Blackhawk team. That came on Jan. 22, 1961 against Boston. Flames 2, canucks 1, of Calgary Alberta Jamie Macoun scored with 14 seconds left in overtime to Lead Calgary Over Van Couver. Macoun beat Vancouver goaltender Kirk Mclean on the far Side with a wrist shot with just 14 seconds remaining in the extra period. Were not. One night someone left a Fry ing pan waiting for her at Home plate and occasionally she was the victim of sexual innuendo. But she kept her Cool throughout. Her departure robs baseball of one of its More colourful and feisty arbiters and leaves 29-year-old Theresa Cox who worked last year in the Arizona Rookie league As the Only woman Umpire in the game. I liked the game i liked umpiring and i really thought it should be my life. That s Why i stuck it out Postema said. And i still think i can do the Job As Wellas anybody. I m bitter right now and 1 Don t want to brag but if i could t make it i Don t see How any woman Postema s prospects for a ticket to the big leagues seemed strongest in the last two years when she worked Spring train ing games under the watchful eyes of de Vargo a former Umpire who is director of Umpire supervision for the National league. Postema said she was informed that officials of both the National and Ameri can leagues decided during the recent Winter meetings that she was judged unsuitable for the majors this season. Because it was the third straight year she fell into that category she was Given her release to make room at the aaa level for another Prospect. A half dozen other aaa umpires All of them men Wulc similarly released in recent weeks. The Job of minor league Umpire is in no Way intended to be a career said Randy Mobley who Heads the american association circuit in which Postema worked 144 games last season. It s a Means to an ends the end of which is to become a major league de Lawrence director of the major leagues Umpire development office did not comment directly on Postema s situation. But when asked what Bis office looks for in a big league Umpire he re plied the no. I thing is handling situations what the rest of us Call arguments. That deals directly with one s maturity Lawrence said. Very close behind that is consistency in calling balls an strikes and handling the plays at the bases. Then technique voice and so on. But handling situations is at the top of the list showing Force without being arrogant he concluded. Because the Umpire holds the ultimate weapon of re Postema conceded the news did no come out of the Blue. And she was Well aware that openings at the big league level were few and far Between because umpires no longer have a mandatory retirement age and those who have suffered the deprivations of the minors Low pay abusive ballplayers and de manding schedules Are reluctant to step Down once they be hit the comparatively Plush big time. I never regret anything i say or do because at the moment i really believe it Postema said. It s the Way i be live my life and always have. 1 endured a lot but it a a great experience that i never want to take Cerone returns to Yonks by the associated press new York Rick Cerone agree wednesday to return for a third stint with the new York Yankees accepting Atwo year contract Worth $1.4 million. No announcement of the move was made because Cerone was still on the roster of the Boston red sox however Boston let it be known that Cerone would not be offered a contractor 1990, which would make him a free agent at Midnight. The Deal could for Mally be agreed to As soon As thursday. Cerone who made $445,000 last sea son gels a $200,000 signing Bonus $500,000 in 1990 and $700,000 in 1991. He batted .243 last season with four Home runs and 48 Bis. He was with from 1980-84 and returned in 1987. His Best season was 1980, his first with the Yankees when he hit .277 with14 homers and 85 Bis. Tigers a pitchers Detroit Guillermo Hernandez baseball Roundup and Doyle Alexander two Veteran pitch ers who were heroes in different Detroit Tiger playoff drives were Cut by the american league team. The tigers decision against offering a contract to either Man for the 1990 sea son excludes them from the team s 40 Man roster and makes them free agents. But Detroit general manager Bill la ionic said either player still could end up play ing for the tigers. Hernandez the american league most valuable player and by Young award Winner in 1984 when he was 9-3 with 32 saves and a 1.92 earned run average in the tigers drive to the world series championship was 2-2 with i saves and a 5.74 Era in 1989. Alexander acquired in August 1987 from the Atlanta braves went 9-0 with a 1.53 Era for Detroit that season to Lead the tigers to the Al East was 6-18 with a 4.44 Era in 1989. Lendl Mcenroe will play in at sky dome event Toronto a top ranked Ivan Lendl and John Mcenroe head a Field of 56 to play in the $1.5 million sky dome world Tennis event to be held feb. 12-18, Tennis Canada announced thursday. The tournament will Mark the first time professional Tennis is played at the sky dome. It will also be the first major event on the new association of Tennis professionals tour. With the sky dome indoor championship and the player s International Toronto is one of Only three cities that will hold two major at events in 1990. Tokyo and Stuttgart West Ger Many Are the others. John Beddington the tournament chairman said he expects As Many As five of the top-10 players in the world to enter
