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WPBL: The WPBL We Were Told Was Coming
The Women’s Pro Baseball League has come and gone so quickly that it feels almost like it didn’t happen. I have been watching the WPBL grow since April ‘25, wondering what the league would look like once it arrived. Promises were made, expe...
The Ballad of Ayami Sato
MVP Ayami Sato via WPBL (uncredited)
At nine years old, Ayami Sato couldn’t imagine that playing catch with her brother could someday become a career. That pathway simply didn’t exist for girls or women. At nine, though, Sato didn’t see ba...
WPBL: How They Got Here
Images by WPBL, Jackie Kalafut and Holly Desautels
What an incredible night of baseball as the Los Angeles Queens defeat the San Francisco Firebells 2-0 to become the first-ever WPBL champions! The air was cool but the tension in it had yo...
WPBL: Before We Move On…
The first round of the playoffs has come to a close, so before we move on to the WPBL Championship Series I’d rather give some time to the teams that won’t be moving on. Each of these teams had a memorable first season and deserve some time...
WPBL: Playoff Preview
The WPBL playoffs start today with the first-place San Francisco Firebells taking on the Boston Hunters in a best-of-three semifinal series, followed by the New York Heights and Los Angeles Queens tomorrow. The regular season gave us a good...
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