WOMEN'S BASEBALL.
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A brand-new league. Your group chat's women's-baseball brain.
One summer.
One ballpark.
The inaugural season is underway, with every 2026 game at Robin Roberts Stadium in Springfield, Illinois. Here are the next games up. Ask Snapp for tickets, scores, or the rest of the slate.
REGULAR SEASON THROUGH SEP 6 · SEMIFINALS SEP 9-14 · BEST-OF-5 FINAL SEP 16-22
Get tickets on the official siteThe best in the game,
in one league.
The Nov 2025 draft pulled together the deepest women's-baseball talent pool ever assembled in the US. Tap any question below and Snapp texts you the answer.
First woman to start and pitch in the Atlantic League (2022).
Five-time Women's Baseball World Cup champion, widely called the greatest women's pitcher ever.
A cornerstone infield pick anchoring the New York lineup.
2014 Little League World Series icon, now chasing it in the pros.
Women have always played.
This is the lineage.
The WPBL did not appear from nowhere. It stands on more than eighty years of women who played, pitched and coached when they were told they could not.
Philip K. Wrigley launched the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during WWII. More than 600 players suited up for teams like the Kenosha Comets, Racine Belles, South Bend Blue Sox and the title-hoarding Rockford Peaches.
Learn MoreThe 1992 film turned the Rockford Peaches into legend and taught a generation that "there's no crying in baseball." It remains the cultural anchor for American women's baseball.
Learn MoreToni Stone became the first woman to play regularly on a top pro men's team (Indianapolis Clowns, 1953). Mamie "Peanut" Johnson pitched for the Clowns, and Connie Morgan joined them in 1954.
Learn MoreOn June 21, 1952, organized baseball barred teams from signing women. The ban stood for forty years before it was finally lifted in 1992.
Learn MoreFirst woman to pitch in a men's college game (1994), first in men's pro baseball (1997), and the first female pitcher to win a men's pro game (1998).
Learn MoreFirst woman to coach a pro men's team (2009), to throw MLB batting practice (2011), and to be hired as a coach by an MLB org (Oakland, 2015). Founder of Baseball For All, WPBL co-founder, and its first Commissioner.
Learn MoreThe world's been playing
for a while.
Outside the US, women's baseball already has a World Cup, a dynasty, and a pro league that showed it could work. The WPBL steps onto that stage.
The WBSC event debuted in Edmonton in 2004. In its entire history, only two nations have ever won it: the United States and Japan.
The USA won the first two editions (2004, 2006). Japan has won all seven since. In the 2024 final, Japan beat the USA 11 to 6 for a seventh straight title, with Canada taking bronze.
For over a decade this was the only sustained pro women's baseball league in the world. It is the model the WPBL is most often compared to.
The leading women's-baseball nations now include Japan, the USA, Canada, Chinese Taipei, Venezuela, Australia and Mexico, and the pool keeps growing.
The USA Women's National Team began in 2004. Malaika Underwood holds the USA Baseball record for the most national-team selections of any player.
Four cities. Four trailblazers.
Revealed July 8, 2026, every club is named for a woman who broke ground. Here is the story behind each name, and a few players tied to it.
Named for Harriot K. Hunt, a pioneering 19th-century physician popularly cited as the first woman to apply to Harvard Medical School.
A play on the surname of Dorothy Irene Height, the civil-rights and women's-rights leader who shaped a movement for decades.
Honors Lizzie Murphy, the "Queen of the Diamond" and the first woman to play against MLB players, back in 1922.
Named for Lillie Hitchcock Coit, the "Firebelle" who championed San Francisco's volunteer firefighters and gave the city Coit Tower.