Despite Japanese baseball's image as a bastion of gender inequality, Justine Siegal, who in 2015 became the first woman to be hired by a major league team to coach, received a "heartwarming" welcome when she coached a men's pro baseball club here last spring."It was heartwarming for them to immediately accept me and immediately start asking questions about how they could become a better pitcher," Siegal told Kyodo News in a recent interview."That was really nice, because usually, it's, 'Oh, she's a woman. Does she really know what she's talking about? How can I gain that much from talking t…READ FULL ARTICLE
