Baseball: Red Hopes' female coach brings equality to play

Justine Siegal just wanted to play baseball, but she's done so much more.On Thursday, Siegal began coaching with the Fukushima Red Hopes of the 11-team Route Inn Baseball Challenge League, an independent pro circuit operating in central and eastern Japan.The first woman to pitch batting practice to major leaguers and the first to be employed as a coach by a major league team when she worked for the Oakland Athletics in the Arizona Instructional League, Siegal is in Japan to work with Akinori Iwamura, a former big leaguer who skips the 24-man team. She will be with the team until June 10."I …READ FULL ARTICLE