US EditionWomen's Professional Baseball League Offers New Hope for Female Athletes
The league offers tryouts to women from nine countries, aiming to draft 150 players for its 2026 season to revive professional women's baseball after nearly 70 years.
- The Women's Professional Baseball League held inaugural tryouts in Washington, D.C., welcoming all women while stars like Mo'ne Davis and Kelsie Whitmore are already signed.
- Faced with decades of limited pathways, Justine Siegal, league co-founder, said the WPBL aims to create paid, sustainable opportunities for girls and women baseball players beyond youth leagues.
- Hundreds of athletes said it was one of the first times they've seen so many women baseball players together, and Monica Holguin, WPBL hopeful from Burbank, California, said, `I never thought I'd see this, ever.`
- Each day of tryouts, tryout participants will be weeded out until an exhibition game on Monday at Nationals Park, with high turnout signaling momentum for the WPBL October draft process.
- The league is set to launch six teams next year, with leaders aiming to make professional baseball a tangible goal for younger girls and the next generation.
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Dreams on the diamond: Photos of Women's Professional Baseball League tryouts
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Women’s Professional Baseball League is set to launch next year, with tryouts held Aug. 22-25 in Washington. The tryouts are open to all players, making way for competitors of all ages to chase their dream of…
Dreams on the diamond: photos of Women's Professional Baseball League tryouts
The Women’s Professional Baseball League is set to launch next year, with tryouts held Aug. 22-25 in Washington. The tryouts are open to all players, making way for competitors of all ages to chase their dream of playing professionally.
Women's Professional Baseball League Will Soon Launch, Here's When
There are professional women’s soccer, basketball, football, and lacrosse teams, but no baseball teams. Until now. The Women’s Pro Baseball League, or WPBL, plans to launch six teams in May of 2026. The new league marks for the first time in over 70 years a professional women’s baseball teams has been created. NEW LEAGUE: Women's Professional Baseball League offers new hope for female athletes. https://t.co/SKXgqBPj0Q — WPLG Local 10 News (@WPL…
The Record
Women’s Professional Baseball League launching in 2026 offers new hope for athletes
By ALANIS THAMES WASHINGTON (AP) — Victoria Ruelas was 12 years old when she made history as the first American girl to play in the Little League World Series. That was in 1989. And while Ruelas is proud of how far women in sports have come since her childhood, she can’t help but wish there were more opportunities for them to shine. Especially in baseball, where opportunities beyond youth leagues have so often required girls to take unusual path…
The Billings Gazette
Women's Professional Baseball League offers new hope for female athletes
WASHINGTON — Victoria Ruelas was 12 years old when she made history as the first American girl to play in the Little League World Series.
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