About 100 women, some having already made baseball history, competed in Monday’s final tryouts for the Women’s Pro Baseball League with hopes of jobs for the inaugural 2026 campaign.
More than 600 women from 10 nations began four days of evaluation at Nationals Park, the home stadium of Major League Baseball’s Washington Nationals.
From there, the group was trimmed to the final top talent to compete on four teams over two seven-inning scrimmages on Monday as scouts begin to assemble ideas on talent for first-year clubs, all of them eligible for the first league draft in October ahead of next May’s launch.
“Not a moment, a movement,” the WPBL said in social media posting on X. “Not a trend, a transformation. More than a league, a turning point.”
Mo’ne Davis, a 24-year-old American, was