September 5, 2025 TweetMax Chase: The future is now for women's pro baseballJulia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo (used with permission)##Players warm up during the third day of tryouts for the Women’s Professional Baseball League on Aug. 24 at the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy in Washington, D.C. Despite lack of backing from Major League Baseball — it is instead investing in the Athletes Unlimited Softball League — optimism is sky high among backers of the Women’s Professional Baseball League, which Siegal co-founded. The Women’s Professional Baseball League seeks to make all of these facts common knowledge, after decades of softball drowning out its sport. They believed the country was ready for women’s baseball and wanted to be part of the history-making endeavor. Though she didn’t take the field in the exhibition play, McCullough remains hopeful she will get that chance when league play opens next year.