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Ashton Lansdell of the Los Angeles Queens bats during the Women’s Professional Baseball League Opening Day game against the New York Heights on Aug. 1, 2026, in Springfield, Ill. Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images

The Women’s Professional Baseball League is betting that women’s baseball has a future in the US

Callie Maddox, Miami University

What will it take for the league to survive, expand and carve out its own identity in an increasingly saturated pro sports landscape?
Starting in the 1970s, many girls who wanted to play baseball were encouraged to play softball instead. Bettmann/Getty Images

Women are reclaiming their place in baseball

Callie Maddox, Miami University

Many Americans see baseball as a sport for men and softball as a sport for women. It wasn’t always this way in the US – and it isn’t that way in the rest of the world.

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