The 1992 movie A League of Their Own catapulted the little-known All-American Girls Professional Baseball League on to the world stage. But by the time Madonna, Geena Davis and Tom Hanks re-enacted America’s first professional women’s baseball league for the silver screen, the real thing had long ceased to exist.

Until now. For the first time since the All-American Girls league shut down in 1954, a professional league for women has been established in the US. Among the inaugural draftees for the Women’s Professional Baseball League are nine Australians vying for the chance to play for teams in four of the nation’s biggest cities – New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

Ticara Geldenhuis began playing baseball because of her dad, Trevor, whose father had been advised that the

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