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Eri Yoshida was a high school student at Kawasaki-kita Senior High School in Kawasaki. At the age of 16, she was the first female drafted in the Japanese professional baseball team, Kobe 9 Cruise. She played alongside male teammates Her pitches have been clocked at 101 kilometres per hour (63 mph),and knuckleball sits around 50 mph. She started learning knuckleball after watching videos of Major League Baseball Knuckleballer Tim Wakefield.
This is the best example to show that women too can play a man’s game. She wasn’t just drafted, she really played the game and proved to everyone that she can be an equal player with her male teammates. And did even better than most. She became a sensation. It was recently announced that she will be part of the Arizona Winter League on January 24, 2010 to showcase her skills with hopes of being signed in the Major League Baseball.