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| 2008-12-04 |
| A 16-year-old Japanese girl signed with a regional baseball team Tuesday, becoming the country's first female professional baseball player. Eri Yoshida, a knuckleball pitcher, will play for the Kobe 9 Cruise in a new independent league starting in April 2009. The team selected her last month along with 31 male players in the league draft. "I still don't feel like I've really become a pro baseball player, but I want to do my best," Yoshida said at a news conference after signing her contract. "My specialty is the knuckleball, so I really want to be able to get batters out using it effectively." Yoshida, who started playing baseball when she was in second grade, said she wants to emulate Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield, who has built a successful major league career as a knuckleballer. She's got spunk. Hope she does well. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #7 Hopefully, her professional career won't end up like most of the Japanese babes on G4TV's Male-Female "NINJA" competition in Nippon, where the babes are basically there to show off their sexy slinky, "Look-at-Me", flashy or shocker etc. Costumes to Nation and World on TV before going down = failing in the first round??? * MORGAN WEBB w/SAMURAI SWORD > "KONICHIWA - BITCHES"! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-12-04 18:41 |
| #6 Whoa - a 16-year old and le femme to boot. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-12-04 18:30 |
| #5 Bobby Murcer said that trying to hit a knuckleball “is like trying to eat jello with chopsticks.” Bob Uecker would always say about being a catcher of a knuckleballer. “It's easy to catch a knuckleball. You just wait for it to stop rolling and pick it up.” |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-12-04 13:01 |
| #4 "Hitting a knuckleball is like eating soup w/a fork." I've always loved that line. Vin Scully or Tony Kubeck IIRC said that. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2008-12-04 12:53 |
| #3 Moose, she's a knuckleball pitcher. She wouldn't scratch the paint on that plywood ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2008-12-04 10:46 |
| #2 When someone can throw a fastball through an inch of plywood at 50 yards, they don't care if they wear Pikachu undergarments. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-12-04 09:52 |
| #1 Not about Hek, then. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2008-12-04 08:37 |