95.7 KEZJ - Southern Idaho's Best Country » pitch http://kezj.com Southern Idaho's Best Country Fri, 24 May 2013 14:00:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Woman Pitches Batting Practice For The Cleveland Indians http://kezj.com/woman-pitches-batting-practice-for-the-cleveland-indians/ http://kezj.com/woman-pitches-batting-practice-for-the-cleveland-indians/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:53:56 +0000 Brad Weiser http://kezj.com/?p=4305 Justine Siegal threw batting practice at the Cleveland Indians' spring training facility in Goodyear, Arizona, marking the first time a woman has ever performed this task.

She will pitch batting practice again today, this time for the Oakland A's.

This isn't the first time the 36-year old has been a baseball gender pioneer -- in 2009 Siegal became the first woman to coach first base for a men's professional team when she did so for the Broxton Rox of the Canadian-American League. Read on to see her in action.

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