The First Ball Girl for NY Yankees and the First woman to represent GB men’s baseball, Laura Hirai returns to the British Baseball Podcast for her own feature episode, we talk about her beginnings in Japan as a 6 year old, her parents support, being the only girl playing at a coaching clinic and her dad battling for her to be a part of it, being the only girl in at a club and in the national team, inspiring kids in local schools, being a youth ambassador for IWBC and meeting members of the women's pro league from the 40s and 50s, being the ball girl for the Yankees in the 2019 London Series, being part of the inaugural GB women team in France, how baseball gave her the mindset to handle criticism in life and much much more.
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