Last winter, the Leafs made international headlines when they signed Sato who helped her native country win five women’s world baseball championships. This spring she became not only the first woman to play for Toronto, but the first in Canadian pro baseball history.

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Largest crowd in over a decade packs Christie Pits for Leafs season opener  By R.S. Konjek  She stands on the field near third base. Diminutive and still, she is wearing her crisp white and blue Toronto Maple Leafs baseball uniform. An arm’s length away, a dozen people lean over the fence, cameras trained, phones recording. Ayami […]

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Ayami Sato, maybe the best female baseball player of all time, joins the Toronto Maple Leafs at Dominico Field this season.

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Sato, 35, has pitched in the Japan Women’s Baseball League since 2013 and helped Japan win six straight Women’s Baseball World Cups.

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