Women's Pro Baseball League selects New York, Boston, LA, and San
Francisco for inaugural season
[October 21, 2025]
By ALANIS THAMES
The Women's Professional Baseball League has chosen New
York, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco as the cities that will
represent the four teams that will compete in the inaugural season, the
league announced Tuesday. |
Lauren Boden, second from right, Stephanie Everett, right, and other
players talk in the dugout during the first day of tryouts for the
Women's Professional Baseball League, Friday, Aug 22, 2025, at the
Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy in Washington. (AP
Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, file) |
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The upstart league co-founded by Justine Siegal, the first woman
to coach for an MLB team with the Oakland Athletics in 2015,
announced plans last year to launch in 2026 as a six-team
circuit with a regular season, playoffs and all-star game. When
it debuts, it will be the first pro league for women since the
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League — immortalized
in “A League of Their Own” — dissolved in 1954.
The WPBL will now launch with four teams for the inaugural
season, with 15 players per club.
The top 100 players from the WPBL's summer tryouts advanced to
the league's draft next month, which will also feature some of
the sport's biggest stars, including former Little League star
Mo'ne Davis, USA baseball’s Kelsie Whitmore and Japanese pitcher
Ayami Sato.
All of the WPBL's games will be played at a neutral venue in
2026, which the league said will be announced at a later date.
The league added the four cities were selected because of their
market size and large fan presence.
“Each of these cities are storied sports cities,” Siegal said in
a statement, "and we can’t wait to connect with the fans who
live there and baseball fans across the country.”
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