Every once in a while, in our quest to research every avenue professional baseball has to offer, we come across something we’ve never seen before. I (Eric) will speak only for myself in revealing that I had no idea there was such a thing as the Alaska Baseball League – perhaps some of my colleagues [...]
Archive for December, 2009
21 Dec
Bus Leagues Q&A: Tiffany Brooks of the Arizona Winter League
A few days ago, I reported a tidbit of news about Japanese baseball star Eri Yoshida, who will be joining the Yuma Scorpions for the Arizona Winter League season. Turns out she’s not going to be the only woman joining the pros in the Golden League this winter. Former Gonzaga softball player Tiffany Brooks let me know [...]
16 Dec
Hello, Kitty: Japanese Teen Girl to Pitch in Arizona
I saw this on the Facebook feed of Ballpark Digest: the Yuma Scorpions of the Arizona Winter League have signed Japan’s first professional female baseball player to sling a few stateside. Eri Yoshida is a 17-year-old sidearm pitcher with a knuckleball so slow it makes clocks run backward. She’s 5’1″ and Tim Wakefield (natch) is her hero. “We [...]
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