Welcome to Season 5 of Women’s Baseball the Inside Pitch, “Firsts”, where a host of trailblazing players from around the world share their stories about how and when they became the first woman to……. In Episode 4, I chat with Laura Hirai from London, England! Laura has etched her name into the history books as the first women to play baseball for the Great Britain U16/U18 (boys) National teams, the first woman to represent both the Great Britain women’s baseball and softball teams, the first ball girl for the New York Yankees, yes the Yankees, at the UK Series in London... and more.   If her middle name wasn’t already ’Baseball’ it would be ’Firsts’.