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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.
>> Anonymous
That's a man....I dunno they all look alike.
>> Anonymous
brb Putting people in sits.
>> Anonymous
>she wants to follow in the footsteps of the great Boston Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield.

Everyone in Japan is a Red Sox fan.
>> Anonymous
>>473746
Well, she looks more mannish than Yu Darvish anyway... if that's saying anything.
>> michael moses !!6nOq0Y/J8jv
>TOKYO (FAP) – A 16-year-old schoolgirl

Fixed that for you.
>> Anonymous
wtf is this shit?
girls can't fuckin play baseball.
>> Anonymous
>>473753
See
>>473747
>> Billy the Blue Ranger !5lGrhM17rM
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There's no crying in baseball!
>> Anonymous
I think I saw an anime about this...
>> Anonymous
>>473763
By "anime" do you mean hentai?
>> Anonymous
>>473765
I don't think so, but I like where this is going
>> Anonymous
>>473765
No I think I saw the same, I dunno what it was called again. It was about some young japanese that was going to be drafted for Red Sox.
>> Anonymous
I am incredibly turned on.
>> Anonymous
>>473745
>play for the Kobe 9 Cruise
>play for the Kobe
>the Kobe

oh SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-
>> Anonymous
>>473949
lolol the name of a city in Japan is the same as an NBA star.
>> Anonymous
>>473763


There's an anime about a female high school baseball team.called Princess Nine
>> Anonymous
>>473952

Pronounced Ko-Bay
>> Anonymous
inb4 Boston gives her 200 million to play in the MLB
>> Anonymous
Is there any rule that says Girls can't play in the MLB?
Serious question by the way, I am curious. The absolute best female baseball player cannot be worse than the absolute worst male professional baseball player.
>> Anonymous
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>>473991

Of course there's no rule. But yes, the worst male professional baseball player is better than the best female baseball player simply due to the lack of high-level baseball for girls.

I have dreamed for years that if I ever had a daughter I'd teach her to be a knuckleballer and see if I could get her to be the first Division I scholarship female baseball player. Interesting to see that my plan could possibly work.
>> Anonymous
This actually makes a lot of sense. There is no reason a woman can't be just as good of a knuckleballer as a man.
>> Anonymous
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Pic related.
>> Anonymous
Mentioning of Wakefield, would fucking hit. 16 is like an extra.
>> Anonymous
>side arm
>knuckler
DOES NOT COMPUTE
>> Kilgamayan !2BklmILFiE
>>473949

Bryant's parents named him after the beef that comes from that city.