KIXS FM 108 » broxton rox http://kixs.com The Country Leader Fri, 24 May 2013 14:09:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Woman Pitches Batting Practice For The Cleveland Indians [VIDEO] http://kixs.com/woman-pitches-batting-practice-for-the-cleveland-indians-video/ http://kixs.com/woman-pitches-batting-practice-for-the-cleveland-indians-video/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:00:40 +0000 Amory Gritta http://kixs.com/?p=1543 Justine Siegal pitched 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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