Have you guys heard about the Japanese female baseball player who got signed by a professional baseball team in Japan. Eri Yoshida a 16 year old girl has been picked to play for the Japanese pro baseball team Kobe 9 Cruise. This is the first female baseball player to be picked and signed by a professional male dominated sport like baseball. She started her baseball career when she was in the second grade playing and going everywhere with her older brother. She was so good as a kid that she played first base for the boys' junior high school team. And eventually went on to play in high school but later ended up quiting because the training was too hard. This is remarkable since I would bet that there is not another athlete in any other sport where they quit thier high school or college team and went on to play professionally in thier respective sport. With the emergence of female athletes playing professionally in male sports it is only a matter of team before the United States catches on and Females in the US start playing male professional sports as well.
Robert Penagos
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That's really cool! One of my sister's friends in high school actually played baseball with the boys. She originally went to a different high school, but transfered when the coach refused to let her be on the team. She finished out her junior and senior year in Redlands, and was picked to play for the USA's women's professional baseball team, but is now playing for a professional team somewhere in Japan too.
Kelly C. Kin338I Sec6
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