Baseball

Pam Postema, a minor league umpire for 13 years until she was fired in 1989, filed a sex-discrimination lawsuit against baseball because she was never promoted to the major leagues and was fired from her minor league job.

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, asks for unspecified money damages and back wages she would have earned as a major league umpire. Postema 37, also is demanding a job as an umpire in the major leagues.