Eri Yoshida: Still Kicking Ass

A year ago this month, we wrote about a 17-year-old, 114-pound, Japanese knuckleballer named Eri Yoshida.

The Kobe 9 Cruiser made history last March by becoming the first female to ever play professional baseball in Japan. Pretty impressive. These days, Yoshida is still kicking ass and taking names: like fellow knuckleballer Tim Wakefield, whose delivery she studied on video as a young girl.

You Throw Like a Girl

A five-foot, 114-pound teenager made history in Japan Friday, becoming the first ever female professional baseball player in the country.

Eri Yoshida, a 17-year-old Kobe 9 knuckleballer, made her debut during the team's season opener against the Osaka Gold Villicanes Friday in the spankin' new, four-league Kansai Independent League. She walked the first batter on four pitches to lead off the inning and allowed a stolen base before fanning the next guy swinging.

ESPN's Rob Neyer seems more than a little threatened by the underage schoolgirl in his March 27th article.

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