Today's Newspaper Discussion

“Japanese Schoolgirl Drafted By Pro Team.” Daily Yomiuri Online 17 November 2008

Written Summary:
According to this article, a 16-years-old high school student, Eri Yoshida, is going to play as a professional player. She is going to play in a new team called Kobe 9 Cruise, which is one of the teams that will join new baseball league starting in April. She is good at throwing knuckle ball, and she says that she wants to throw balls like Tim Wakefield, who is a pitcher of the Boston Red Sox and has built a successful major league career throwing it.

Opinion Statements:
I think this girl gave (dreams to - I forgot to tipe in -) many girls in Japan, because in Japan, baseball used to be one of the sports which boys do, and girls who wanted to play baseball played softball unwillingly.

Questions:
1. What do you think of girls playing baseball?
2. Have you ever got any kinds of tryouts or auditions?
3. What is your favorite sport?

Words
1. Pitch ≒ throw 2. Conference 「会議、評議会」 3. Achieved 「獲得する」 4. Tryout 「(選手)適性試験」　 5. Draft 「ドラフト制度、ドラフト会議」

You can get article from here.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BBI_JAPAN_SCHOOLGIRL_PRO_ASOL-?SITE=YOMIURI&SECTION=HOSTED_ASIA&TEMPLATE=ap_national.html