Female Side-arm Knuckleballer Drafted in Japan
by ZBW on Nov 17, 2008 5:16 AM EST
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what will the japanese come up with next?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081117/sp_wl_afp/lifestylejapansportsbaseball_081117063048
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.
by lailaihei on Nov 17, 2008 5:34 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Side armed knuckle ball?
That’s got to have some mean break.
54!
by joof on Nov 17, 2008 7:35 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Now all we need...
is to teach it to Bradford. That would bee ODD looking.
by chancedj on Nov 17, 2008 8:55 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Wow, good for her
I wanna see that pitch.
by joeybw on Nov 17, 2008 9:56 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
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.
by steve-o1285 on Nov 17, 2008 11:26 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
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 0 recs
I would hit it
like a weak dribbler to 2nd.
I mean the pitch. I would hit the PITCH. When it was THROWN.
by kericr on Nov 17, 2008 11:38 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
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.
by Blicks on Nov 18, 2008 8:43 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Hopefully someone goes out now and gets video of her
I could be wrong though
by staplemaniac on Nov 17, 2008 12:18 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
she is from japan so maybe she is really 13 or 14
everything Rays,Marlins,Twins and Reds
by RaysOfHope on Nov 19, 2008 3:42 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
That's Communist China, dude
Lay off the stadium, Iwamura
by Orlando Rays on Nov 20, 2008 10:36 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
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