It’s been some 70 years since we’ve had an all-female pro baseball league. RememberA League of Their Own, starring Madonna, ...

For most baseball fans, hope springs eternal on Opening Day. Many of those fans – more than you might think – are women. A ...

A great night at a Minor League Baseball game can instill a strong sense of community, and communities are at their best when ...

Doris Sams was a successful multi-sport athlete in Knoxville before she joined the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1946.

Former All-American Girls Professional Baseball League pitcher Maybelle Blair, who turned 98 in January, is an honorary chair on the WPBL's advisory board. She helped inspire the film "A League of ...

It wasn’t always this way. The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, founded by Philip K. Wrigley in 1943, also offered women the chance to play professionally. The league ...

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League folded in 1954, and by the late-1950s women’s participation in baseball had dwindled. Softball was invented in Chicago in 1887 as an indoor ...