Women’s Pro Baseball Swings for the Fences

Women’s pro baseball swings for the fences

As interest and investment in women’s sports surges, a new “league of their own” steps up to the plate: the Women’s Pro Baseball League.

Gretchen Teske: Women's Professional Baseball League proves the time is right for a league of their own

For those who can't make it to Springfield, ESPN is streaming the WPBL games live.

Women's Baseball is BACK!

Professional women’s baseball is back in the U.S. for the first time since 1954 . . . and 99-year-old former player Maybelle Blair was there to help launch it. Maybelle, who pitched in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1948, threw out the ceremonial pitch before the new Women’s Professional Baseball League’s first game.  Maybelle called it “the happiest day” of her life. The league opened with four teams and a 30-game season…

Clevelander Justine Siegal says “Play Ball” for inaugural season of Women’s Professional Baseball League

Justine Siegal is the first WPBL commisioner. [All photos courtesy of WPBL] On Saturday, August 1, Justine Siegal once again made baseball history when the Women’s Pro Baseball League (WPBL) took the field for the first time. Siegal is the co-founder and first commissioner of the new league. She said the league is partially the result of her lifelong mission to break the barrier for women in professional baseball. “There’s an appetite to watch b…