‘This is home’: The lights shine bright in the inaugural WPBL season

SPRINGFIELD, ILL. — Anytime a baseball player touches home plate, whether it’s an emphatic stomp after a home run trot or in a contested slide trying to tag on a fly ball, it’s an exciting moment.  That feeling sums up every moment of the inaugural Women’s Professional Baseball League in Springfield, Ill. this summer. From the opening day on Aug. 1 to when the playoffs start on Sept. 9 and all the hits and diving plays in between, history is being made as the WPBL has become the first pro…