US EditionBuilding a League of Their Own: What's Ahead for Upstart Women's Baseball League After Tryouts
- The Women's Professional Baseball League held tryouts in Washington, D.C., attracting hundreds of women, including Mo'ne Davis, a notable former athlete.
- Davis, the former Little League World Series star, returned to baseball after a brief retirement, seeking new opportunities.
- League co-founder Justine Siegal noted that any woman who has ever picked up a baseball now has a chance to play, aiming to revive women's baseball.
- Maybelle Blair, one of the last surviving members of the AAGPBL, expressed optimism that the new league will expand the sport for women, stating, "Baseball is going to take off and we're going to do it and have that league of our own.
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The next league of their own: Hundreds of women's baseball players try out for the pros
The Women’s Professional Baseball League aims to make the most significant impact on women’s baseball since the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which shut down in 1954.
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Building a league of their own: What's ahead for upstart women's baseball league after tryouts
The Women's Professional Baseball League tryouts have wrapped up with a symbolic first pitch. Ninety-eight-year-old Maybelle Blair, a former baseball pitcher, threw the first pitch to 24-year-old Mo'ne Davis at Nationals Park. Blair, who inspired the film “A League of…
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