Last November, Justine contacted all of Major League Baseball’s general managers to ask for the opportunity to pitch batting practice. Two teams, the Cleveland Indians and Oakland Athletics said yes, and she recently made history again as the first woman to throw batting practice in a major league spring training camp.

"So when I contacted the general managers, I said to them, 'this is a great opportunity to connect with your female fans and I am qualified to do this. So let us do something special.' And the Indians and the A’s kind of caught on to that dream and connected with me and, you know, that is what I have done," she said.

But Siegal had to overcome a serious case of nerves as she walked out to the mound and picked up some baseballs.

"I was super-nervous, and my biggest challenge was the ball sticking to my hand because it was so clammy. So it was a lot of fun to live out my dream, but it was also kind of nerve-wracking," she said.

Justine currently runs an organization called Baseball For All ( BaseballForAll.com ), with the purpose of providing girls and women the opportunity to get involved with the game of baseball. They run a girls baseball camp, put on clinics and have programs for schools. And if that were not enough to keep her busy, she is also a student, going for her Ph.D. in sport and exercise psychology.

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