The time: 1972. The event: the World Series. The pitcher fires a curve ball that just clips the inside corner of the plate. "Steee-rike!" the umpire cries. The batter spins around, glares at the umpire and roars with measured fury: "That, madame, was a reprehensible call!"
Sheer fantasy? Not if Mrs. Bernice Gera has anything to say about it. A Queens, N.Y., housewife and a graduate of the Florida Baseball School for umpires, Mrs. Gera, 38, recently won a contract to serve as an umpire in the Class A New York-Pennsylvania League. She was scheduled...
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