There's No Crying in Baseball

Soon there will be no crying because a new women's professional baseball league is planned for the Summer of 2026.

The newly announced Women's Pro Baseball League (WPBL) hopes to have six teams ready by their proposed start date.

The league is co-founded by Justine Siegal, who was the first woman to coach professional men’s baseball in the United States when she joined the Oakland Athletics organization in 2015. Siegal is also the founder of Baseball For All, which is a nonprofit organization that helps girls play and coach baseball throughout the country.

This would be the first attempt at a pro women's league since the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League which was played from 1943-1954 during World War II and the Korean War.  The league was portrayed in the 1992 movie "A League of Their Own".  

The league plans to play a 40-game schedule from May to August in college or minor league stadiums with the capacity for 2,500 to 5,000 fans with seven-inning games which is standard for women's international baseball.

The league would offer an opportunity for women's baseball players.  There were nearly 100,00 girls and women playing in the United States and nearly 27,000 in Canada.

For more information on the league:  https://www.womensprobaseballleague.com