Justine Siegal has already made a lot of history, and she’s making it again – this time with the Oakland Athletics. On Tuesday, the A’s announced that Siegal would join the organization as a Fall Instructional League guest instructor, making her the first female coach in a major-league baseball organization.
Siegal is hardly new to “firsts”. She was also the first woman to throw batting practice to a major league team, when she pitched BP for the Cleveland Indians in 2011. She then threw BP for five other teams that same year, including the Oakland Athletics. Siegal also made history when she became the first female to coach at the professional level, overseeing first base for the Brockton Rox in 2009.