Eri Yoshida can be a high-school student at Kawasaki-kita Senior Big College in Kawasaki, who at the age of 16 became the 1st female drafted by a Japanese pro football staff, Kobe 9 Cruise of Kansai Impartial Baseball League, to play alongside male teammates.

Yoshida is often a sidearm knuckleball pitcher and stands 1.55 meters (five ft 1 in) tall. Her pitches are actually clocked at 101 kilometres per hour (63 mph), even though her knuckleball measures around 50 mph. She started throwing the knuckleball after seeing videos of American Main League Football knuckleballer Tim Wakefield.

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Yoshida constructed her expert debut on the Osaka Dome in your opening game for the Kansai Impartial Baseball League on March 26, 2009 in front of 11,592 fans. Yoshida faced two batters, walking the primary and striking-out the second in any 5-0 win above the Osaka Gold Villicanes. She appeared in 11 games to the Kobe Cruise 9 and moved on right after the season to concentrate on advancing up the pro ranks. She appeared in a very 1 inning battle against the prime hitters in the Hiroshima Carp on November 24, 2009. On December 15, 2009 she announced that she might be coming towards the U.S. to play in your Arizona Winter League to showcase her knowledge in hopes of acquiring signed by a big league organization. On February 12, 2010, Yoshida received her 1st win in Arizona Winter League have fun with, throwing four shut-out innings during a 5-0 win for her team, the Yuma Scorpions, versus Group Canada.

On February 28, 2010 she was an offered a contract to play with the Golden Baseball League, the key third party minor league in western North America, through the Chico Outlaws. The Outlaws are managed by previous leading league all-star Garry Templeton plus the staff President and Basic Manager is former Los Angeles Dodger terrific Mike Marshall. On March a couple of, 2010, she qualified with Tim Wakefield on the Boston Red Sox' minor league coaching facility.

Yoshida was honored having a place on Venus Zine's "25 beneath 25" checklist of outstanding women for 2009.