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Lairderg
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Yes, that's me, ringing up a little mojo for my Fightin' Phils during the 2008 World Series. I grew up, in 1950s and 60s suburbia, with the heart of a frontierswoman. I grew up a Catholic with the heart of a seeker of the Divine Feminine. I grew up a girl and a woman, when being either "just wasn't good enough," with the heart of a warrior priestess of a warrior goddess. My favorite television shows are (from the mid 90s) Profiler, (from the early 21st Century) Witchblade, and (now) Saving Grace, so you know where my mind still is. I was a journalist before big advertising bullies started owning the media and quit (after a long, loud battle) when I saw what they were doing. I was the oldest, and the most eccentric, of seven children in an Irish American family. I married, divorced, and now have a significant other. I am a "budding" herbalist, a mother of four avians (My poor Keenan died recently.), a guerilla gardener, an adjunct professor of pre-composition college writing, a poet, a fiction writer, a creative non-fiction writer, a feature writer, and now a player and a blogger of women's baseball.

APRIL 12, 2010 4:28PM

Second woman signed to pro baseball team

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March 27, 2009 AP File photo of Eri Yoshida pitching in Japan 

(Above, March 27, 2009, AP file photo of Eri Yoshida pitching in Japan)

Eri Yoshida, who started her professional baseball career in Japan, has been signed to play for the Chico Outlaws of the 10-team Golden Baseball League, which has teams in Arizona, California, and Canada. She is the first female baseball pitcher signed since Ila Borders, who retired 10 years ago from the Northern League.

The 18-year-old knuckleballer recently received instruction from her idol, Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield, during a visit to the Red Sox spring training facility.

The Outlaws open this year's season May 21 on the road. The home opener is scheduled for May 26.

http://www.goldenbaseball.com/Chico

Of course, according to the Enterprise-Record (local) newspaper, the team president was quick to say that Yoshida's signing does not indicate she will automatically make the team and said her appearance in spring training in a few weeks would not be a "circus."

http://www.chicoer.com/sports/ci_14850800

Do team officers and other people use the word "circus" when they're announcing the signing of a man to a professional baseball team?

Probably not.

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