French teen makes baseball history as 1st female prospect [...] having run his expert eyes over the sport’s pioneering 16-year-old girl at a training camp this week, can he hazard a guess at whether she’ll become MLB’s first female player? [...] because “I couldn’t say that about any 16-year-old in the United States, anywhere in the world,” Finley said Friday by phone at the end of the pitching and hitting camp in Germany. [...] it is fair to say that Finley certainly doesn’t seem displeased by what he saw, having worked with the shortstop on her swing. In an interview this week, Mayeux said she wants to “reach the highest level I can” in baseball and dreams of becoming MLB’s first woman, but also realizes that goal is still a long way off. Yet all the other 28 kids at the MLB clinic were boys. Finley, who won the World Series with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2001, insisted Mayeux was there on merit. Mike McClellan, MLB’s International Game Development director, said: She’s got great baseball action. Mayeux plays for the French junior national team in baseball and the national softball team — with other women — at a senior level.

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