Women’s Professional Baseball League Kicks Off In Springfield, Ill.

Women's Professional Baseball League puts on a show for Springfield

The nettlesome weather was no match for the excitement of the Women's Professional Baseball League opener at Robin Roberts Stadium on Saturday.

Women’s Professional Baseball League Kicks Off In Springfield, Ill.

The Women's Professional Baseball League kicked off Saturday in Springfield, Ill., it was the first women's professional baseball game in the U.S. in more than 70 years.

Women’s Pro Baseball League makes its debut in front of an enthusiastic crowd

Sarah Hodel and Rachel Koehler arrived at Robin Roberts Stadium more than four hours before the first game of the Women’s Professional Baseball League.

First pitch arrives in Springfield for Women's Pro Baseball League: 'We're ballplayers, too'

About 72 years after the last game for the Rockford Peaches depicted in "A League of Their Own," women's baseball is back in Illinois.

Women’s professional baseball returns to its historic roots in Springfield

Illinois is home to sock monkeys, cornfields and horseshoe sandwiches. Historically, it’s also the home of women’s baseball.  In 1875, the field that would later become Robin Roberts Stadium in Springfield, Il. hosted one of the first Women’s Professional Baseball games. Nearly 70 years later, it became the birthplace of a league designed to keep […] The post Women’s professional baseball returns to its historic roots in Springfield first appear…