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          Eri Yoshida is a year-old Japanese knuckleball pitcher with a sidearm delivery that she hopes might carry her to the big leagues in the United States or.

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          Eri Yoshida

          Japanese baseball player

          Baseball player

          Eri Yoshida
          Pitcher
          Born: (1992-01-17) January 17, 1992 (age 33)
          Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

          Eri Yoshida (吉田 えり, Yoshida Eri, born January 17, 1992) is a Japanese professional baseball player for the Japan Islanders of the Empire Professional Baseball League.

          She plays as a sidearmknuckleball pitcher. In 2008, at the age of 16, she became the first woman drafted by a Japanese men's professional baseball team.[1]

          Baseball career

          Yoshida was born in Yokohama, where she taught herself how to throw the knuckleball at the age of 14 after watching Major League Baseball pitcher Tim Wakefield on television.[2][3] She stands 1.55 metres (5 ft 1 in) tall,[4] and her pitches have been clocked at 101 kilometres per hour (63 mph), while her knuckleball pitch velocity measures around 50 mph.[5] As a high school sophomore at Kawasaki-kita S