Women's Pro Baseball League announces tryout dates

A caller shot league is hoping to find prima players for its inaugural play astatine unfastened tryouts adjacent month. The Women's Pro Baseball League announced connected "CBS Mornings Plus" Wednesday that it volition clasp tryouts from August 22 done August 25 astatine Nationals Park and the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy successful Washington D.C. The final evaluation volition beryllium astatine Nationals Park connected August 25.

Over 500 women from astir the globe person signed up for the tryouts. Up to 150 volition beryllium selected to determination connected to a draught successful the fall, wherever they could beryllium selected by 1 of six teams up of the league's debut successful outpouring 2026. 

"We privation to spot the champion of the best, and that's what we're looking for. The champion players astir the world," Women's Pro Baseball League co-founder Justine Siegal told "CBS Mornings Plus." "I'm looking for radical who tin deed the agelong ball. I'm looking for strikes, stroke by the batters. We're looking for those who person played baseball, person a bully shot acumen and radical are gonna travel retired and ticker them play."

Alex Hugo, a two-time USA Baseball Sportswoman of the Year Award Winner and Team USA Silver Medalist astatine the 2024 Women's Baseball Cup, volition assistance oversee the tryouts and enactment arsenic a peculiar advisor for the league.

"They request to enactment connected their mechanics, their grooming regimens. But I deliberation conscionable bringing the passionateness that they person for baseball, that's what this league is each about," Hugo said. "Show america what you person successful presumption of however peculiar shot is to you."

Once the league starts, it volition travel the aforesaid rules arsenic the Women's Baseball World Cup. That includes utilizing aluminum bats and having 7 innings. 

"You're going to spot passion. You cognize our women, they emotion the crippled truthful much. You cognize it's an obstacle to get to play, and present we are surviving retired our dreams. So it's going to beryllium conscionable fantastic," Siegal said. 

Both women are hopeful the league volition animate aboriginal generations of girls to play baseball.

"Young kids that are playing the sport, pistillate oregon male, I deliberation it's truthful important for them to spot what they privation to accomplish, truthful they tin spot radical that look similar them. These young girls that privation to play baseball, they shouldn't beryllium told 1 mode oregon the other. They should person opportunities to bash immoderate they want," Hugo said.

If you're funny successful trying retired for the league, you tin submit a form connected the WPBL's website. The deadline to use is Monday, July 21 astatine 11:59 p.m. ET.

"If you emotion baseball, travel out, effort retired and amusement america what you got," Siegal said.

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