After playing baseball at Madera South, and winning a Central Section Championship, female baseball pioneer Kaelei Kajitani continued her baseball playing career by getting drafted in the fifth round by San Francisco of the new Women’s Professional Baseball League.
Kajitani was drafted No. 1 in the fifth round and was the 21st pick of San Francisco.
From the WPBL draft: “Kajitani grew up in a baseball family so seeped in the game that a local high school field is named after her great-grandfather (Eddie Chapa Field at Madera South). She realized her childhood dream by playing on that field, then capped her high school career with a Central Section championship. A left-handed pitcher and first baseman, she sees the WPBL as both a personal milestone and a way to carry her family’s legacy forward for the next generation of girls in the game.”