Career
On March 29, 2007, she became the first woman since Pam Postema in 1989 to work a Major league exhibition game, serving alternately as the first and third base umpire in a spring training game between the Chicago Cubs and Arizona Diamondbacks. The 2007 season was her ninth and final professional season and fifth at the Double A level After being denied promotion for many years, she was released by the Minor League Baseball on October 30, 2007.
Cortesio, of Italian and Greek descent, was born in Davenport, Iowa, in 1976 and attended Rice University in Houston, Texas.
