The next league of their own: Mo’ne Davis, hundreds of women’s baseball players prepare for the pros

The Women’s Professional Baseball League aims to make the most significant impact on women’s baseball since the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which shut down in 1954.

WASHINGTON — More than a decade ago, Mo’ne Davis took the baseball world by storm as a Little League World Series icon who donned the cover of Sports Illustrated. She’s since earned an Ivy League graduate degree and happily ended her competitive sports career to dive headfirst into adulthood.

That was until this past weekend.

Davis’ path to the corner office took a wild left turn as she spent a muggy weekend in Washington, D.C., taking cuts in a batting cage, prepping for her unexpected return to the diamond via the newly formed Women’s Professional Baseball League.