The WPBL will be holding tryouts in July and August.
The Women’s Pro Baseball League (WPBL) was co-founded in 2024 by former Major League Baseball coach Justine Siegal and the owner of the Intercounty Baseball League’s Toronto Maple Leafs, Keith Stein. The plan is to kick off the WPBL in May 2026, with six teams in six US cities. It will be the first professional women’s baseball league to operate in the US since Ladies League Baseball ceased operations in 1998.
Now WPBL has announced that player registration for the 2025 summer tryouts is open to players from around the world. They will be the first tryouts for women’s baseball in over 70 years.
Taking place this July and August, the WPBL’s tryouts will be held across the US and internationally and will be by invitation for eligible players. Leading the tryouts will be women’s baseball superstar and WPBL Special Advisor Alex Hugo, the only two-time USA Baseball Sportswoman of the Year Award (2019, 2024) and Team USA silver medalist at the 2024 WBSC Women’s Baseball World Cup.
“The WPBL’s summer tryouts mark an important and exciting milestone in women’s sports,” said Hugo. “Female baseball players around the world have been waiting for this moment for over 70 years and I am honored to be leading the tryouts for the League.”
After the tryouts, up to 200 participants will be invited to the WPBL’s draft in October.
The WPBL is the only professional women’s baseball league in America and will have a regular season, playoffs and a championship. League Co-Founder and baseball pioneer Dr. Justine Siegal is the first woman to coach a professional men’s baseball team and to pitch batting practice for Major League Baseball. In addition, Maybelle Blair, sports icon and former professional baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, was named Honorary Chair of the WPBL Advisory Board, comprised of female trailblazers in sports and business.
