Women’s baseball has a long history. Can a new league cement its future?

Women have been playing baseball for over a century. Some of the earliest teams can be traced back to the 1890s. Those teams expanded and created their own league called the All American Girls Professional Baseball League during World War II. It lasted eleven years, and since then, all other attempts to start one have fallen short.

Will the new women's league expected to start this summer change that?

Leslie Heaphy, president of the International Women’s Baseball Center and associate professor of history at Kent State University, joined the show to discuss the past, present, and future of women's baseball.  

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