Female Side-arm Knuckleballer Drafted in Japan
by ZBW on Nov 17, 2008 5:16 AM EST
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TOKYO (AFP) – A 16-year-old schoolgirl with a mean knuckleball has been selected as the first woman ever to play alongside the men in Japanese professional baseball.
Eri Yoshida was drafted for a new independent league that will launch in April, drawing attention for a side-armed knuckler that her future manager Yoshihiro Nakata said was a marvel.
"I never dreamed of getting drafted," Yoshida told reporters Monday, a day after she was selected to play for the Kobe 9 Cruise.
"I have only just been picked by the team and have not achieved anything," she said. "I want to play as a pro eventually in a higher league."
Yoshida, 155 centimetres (five feet) tall and weighing 52 kilograms (114 pounds), says she wants to follow in the footsteps of the great Boston Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield.
A female professional baseball federation existed for a few years in the 1950s, but Yoshida will become Japan's first-ever woman to play alongside professional male players.
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I've always wondered what a sidearm or submarine knuckleballer would be like...
But I never imagined it would be a 16 year old girl lol.
Now all we need...
is to teach it to Bradford. That would bee ODD looking.
Oh the lost pride of the men she strikes out.
My high school team faced a girl pitcher for Gibbs once…I’ve never seen a group of guys so damn worried.
Especially in Japan
There’s still a sizeable misogynist component to Japanese culture.
Lay off the stadium, Iwamura
by Orlando Rays on Nov 20, 2008 10:34 AM EST up reply actions
I would hit it
like a weak dribbler to 2nd.
I mean the pitch. I would hit the PITCH. When it was THROWN.
I would hit it
like a weak dribbler line drive to 2nd.
I mean the pitch. I would hit the PITCH. When it was THROWN.
I know that's a pisser, baby.
she is from japan so maybe she is really 13 or 14
everything Rays,Marlins,Twins and Reds
That's Communist China, dude
Lay off the stadium, Iwamura
by Orlando Rays on Nov 20, 2008 10:36 AM EST up reply actions
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