Top 10 Female Sports Pioneers
When Japanese knuckleballer Eri Yoshida became the first woman drafted by a professional baseball team on Nov. 17, she joined an elite club of female athletes who have broken sport's gender barrier
When she laced up her skates for the National Hockey League's Tampa Bay Lightning in a 1992 exhibition game, Rheaume became the first woman to play in any of the four major U.S. men's sports leagues. Rheaume, a goaltender, faced nine shots, of which she turned away seven. Though her ground-breaking debut didn't jump-start an NHL career, she helped lead Team Canada to gold medals in the 1992 and 1994 World Hockey Championships and a silver medal at the 1998 Nagano Games.
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