Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Eri Yoshida (born January 17, 1992, in Yokohama,Kanagawa, Japan) is a high-school student at Kawasaki-kita Senior High School in Kawasaki, who at the age of 16 became the first female drafted by a Japanese professional baseball team, Kobe 9 Cruise of Kansai Independent Baseball League, to play alongside male teammates. Yoshida is a sidearm knuckleball pitcher and stands 1.55 meters (5 ft 1 in) tall. Her pitches have been clocked at 101 kilometres per hour (63 mph), while her knuckleball measures around 50 mph.