Women's Pro Baseball League has strong contingent of international players for inaugural season

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (AP) -- Ayami Sato wants to learn and teach during the inaugural season of the Women's Pro Baseball League. She also wants to help establish the WPBL as a viable option for international players. Widely considered the top female pitcher in the world, Sato is one of eight WPBL players born in Japan

Women’s Professional Baseball League Kicks Off In Springfield, Ill.  Forbes

Here's how the Women's Pro Baseball League got started on the wrong foot.

Martha Reeves and two other women's national anthem performance drew social media criticism before the historic first women's pro baseball game in nearly three decades.

'It Means Everything': Women's Professional Baseball League Makes Thrilling Debut  HuffPost

Mo'ne Davis had a crowd of family, fans, and supporters on hand as her Los Angeles Queens faced the New York Heights in the WPBL's inaugural game. And she scored the league's first run in the first.

Women’s Professional Baseball League makes a rainy debut in front of enthusiastic crowd  Toronto Star

Women’s Professional Baseball League makes a rainy debut in front of enthusiastic crowd  AP News

SPRINGFIELD — The Jimmy Dugan character portrayed by Tom Hanks might have told his Rockford Peaches women's baseball team in the 1992 classic “A League of Their Own” that there’s “no crying in baseball.” But there were tears of joy shed at the inaugural Women’s Pro Baseball League game Saturday in Springfield, where re

Nearly a dozen Canadian athletes are going to be part of the chase to be the first-ever champions of the Women's Pro Baseball League, which begins its inaugural season in the United States on Saturday.

The league will be comprised of four teams representing New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Boston during its inaugural season, each playing a 15-game schedule.

The tiger prawn season is underway in Australia's far north, but the number of trawlers operating this year has sunk to a record low.

A six-time world champion and three-time World Cup MVP, Japan’s Ayami Sato joins the new Women’s Professional Baseball League hoping to help build the sport’s future When Ayami Sato takes the mound as the starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Queens on Saturday, it will be the culmination of a professional career that h

New Women's Professional Baseball League is looking like 'a movement'  USA Today

The Women's Pro Baseball League, which features four teams, launches on Saturday. Justine Siegal, the co-founder and first commissioner of the league, along with first overall draft pick Kelsie Whitmore, talk about the pressure and excitement surrounding the league's inaugural season, the future of women playing baseba