Women in baseball 36 strikeouts. In 2008, Eri Yoshida, at 16 years old, became Japan's first professional female baseball player to play in a men's league by signing a professional contract with a new Japanese independent league. In April 2010, she signed a contract with the Chico Outlaws, becoming the first woman to play professionally in two countries. In 2009, Justine Siegal became the first female coach of a men's professional baseball team. In 2011, she was the first woman to throw batting practice to an MLB team, the Cleveland Indians at spring training. She also threw BP to the Oakland Athletics, Tampa
The Woman in the Fifth the door to her apartment opens . . . "The Woman in the Fifth" was produced by Paris-based Haut Et Court with UK’s Film4 Productions, and co-financed by the UK Film Council and SPI Poland. Pawlikowski saw the film as "a story about a man torn between the need for family and stability and the need to be creative". In 2009, he approached Hawke to play the lead character while the actor was performing in a play at the Old Vic in London, United Kingdom (UK). Thomas was cast as the "woman in the Fifth" shortly afterward. The filming took