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“Eri Yoshida, a knuckleball pitcher, will play for the Kobe 9 Cruise in a new independent league starting in April 2009. The team selected her last month along with 31 male players in the league draft. ‘I still don’t feel like I’ve really become a pro baseball player, but I want to do my best,’ Yoshida said at a news conference after signing her contract. ‘My specialty is the knuckleball, so I really want to be able to get batters out using it effectively.’” [Link]
This is nothing more then a publicity stunt, in a view months from now you will never hear from her again.