WASHINGTON -- Just after 9 a.m. ET on Monday morning, as many were in their morning commute, a group of about 100 women was preparing for a different job.

They were getting ready to play baseball.

The final of four days of tryouts to select the inaugural draft class of the Women’s Pro Baseball League kicked off, as the final 100 women selected were split into four teams to play in a pair of seven-inning scrimmages. The group -- all of whom will be draft-eligible after making it through the final cuts, having been whittled down from the 600 initial participants -- stretched, warmed up and took the field for the first time as a cohort.

It was hard not to feel the energy in the air as Game 1 kicked off and children of all genders began milling around the stands, hoping to snag a foul bal

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