Japanese girl drafted by baseball team

This is something that actually seems plausible to me -- that a female could develop a good enough knuckleball and make it to the majors. Besides golf and bowling, and maybe placekicking/punting, a good knuckleball seems about the most likely way for a woman to make it in male professional sports.

After all, how much arm strength do you need for a knuckleball? Very little. And if she signed with an AL team, she'd never have to bat. Now the rampant misogyny I'm sure she'd face -- that's another problem entirely.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/baseball/more/11/17/japan.schoolgirl.ap/index.html?cnn=yes

 

I think its just some of internet buildup to some new, top-of-the-line Asian porn.

 

16-year-old asian schoolgirl and baseball?

The Internets is abouts to explodes.

 

TTIWWP! [/dooley]

 

I don't think we'll ever see this in this country. I think, at least I hope, there'll be a professional softball league within the next 15 years. It'll be a more successful WNBA.

 

Quit sucking up to Flash!

 

I think of any of the four major sports, a pitcher would be the most likely chance a woman would have. The other thing might be a goaltender in hockey.

Women can throw softballs very fast, and that might be possible that a woman could get pitchers out. Think somebody like Dan Quisenberry. Women have played in high school.

I don't think the verbal abuse factor would be as bad as people might think so long as the female pitcher could get batters out. I think this Japanese 16-year-old girl is just too small physically to play serious baseball - she is only five feet tall and weighs 114 lbs.

 

(Manon Rheaume raises her hand...)

 

The Kobe 9 Cruise are now Rivers Cuomo's all-time favorite baseball team.

 

http://www.profastpitch.com/

 

Well, I'll be. I hope it catches on because I really dig softball. Not only am I an All-Star; it's fun to watch, too.

 

I just want to know if she'll be wearing a school girl outfit on the mound.