Professional Women’s Baseball League Reveals Cities for Inaugural Season
The Women’s Professional Baseball League (WPBL) has announced the cities that will host the four teams in its inaugural season. New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco have been selected to represent the teams that will compete, according to an official announcement. The league, co-founded by Justine Siegal, who was the first woman to coach for an MLB team, the Oakland Athletics in 2015, had initially planned to launch the league in 2026 with six teams. The league planned a regular season, playoffs, and an all-star game. This launch will mark the first professional league for women since the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, immortalized in “A League of Their Own”, disappeared in 1954. The WPBL will now begin with four teams, each with 15 players. The top 100 players from the WPBL summer tryouts advanced to the league draft next month, which will also feature some of the biggest stars in the sport, including former Little League star Mo’ne Davis, Kelsie Whitmore from the U.S. baseball team, and Japanese pitcher Ayami Sato. All WPBL games will be played at a neutral venue in 2026, which the league will announce at a later date. The league added that the four cities were selected due to their market size and large fan presence.“Each of these cities are sports cities with history,” Siegal said in a statement, “and we are eager to connect with the fans who live there and with baseball fans across the country.”
Justine Siegal, WPBL Co-founder
