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Two sentences from this article on US minor-league baseball's newest acquisition, Eri Yoshida: "She taught herself how to throw a knuckleball from watching a video of Tim Wakefield" and "The Outlaws open their season at Tijuana on May 21." [MLB.com] More »
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17-year-old Japanese female knuckleballer is a strikeout queen in the Kansai Independent League. [More Hardball] More »
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I don't know; the whole thing sounds a little sketchy to me. But let's take it from the top: Eri Yoshida, a 16-year-old schoolgirl, has been drafted by the Kobe 9 Cruise, a new independent Japanese professional league based in Tokyo. It will be the first time that a chick of the female persuasion will play professional ball with the men in Japan. Also, the unfortunate arrangement of nouns and verbs on this site also makes it sound like the Red Sox, Yankees and Tigers (!) are interested in her. Not likely. Now if you would have said Giants or Padres ... More »
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