A Cleveland native, Justine Siegal, 36, became the first woman to pitch batting practice in a major league spring training camp when she threw to the Cleveland Indians, wearing a patch to honor nine-year-old Christina Taylor, the granddaughter of former major league manager Dallas Green, who was killed in last month's shootings in Tucson. Siegal was the first woman to coach in men's professional baseball for the Brockton (Mass.) Rox, an independent league team, in 2009, and spent three years as the only female college baseball coach in the country at Springfield College (Mass.) from 2007-10. Perhaps the Tribe has finally found a reliable starter for its rotation.
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