San Francisco was picked as one of four cities to represent the Women's Professional Baseball League set to debut next spring. Los Angeles, New York and Boston also will make up the WPBL's original four, the league announced Tuesday. All of the WPBL's games during its inaugural season will be played at a neutral venue. The league said the site, which also will host the playoffs and all-star game, will be announced at a later date.
It was a regular workday, a Monday, for the rest of Washington, D.C., but inside Nationals Park, it was the final day of tryouts for the new Women's Professional Baseball League. This will be the first of its kind since the dissolution of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League-a wartime entertainment that gave hundreds of women the opportunity to play baseball in front of paying fans, but which fell apart in the early 1950s due to mismanagement and dwindling attendance.