There hasn’t been progress currently towards touchdown a Boston-based girls’s professional basketball crew, however the inaugural 2026 season within the Girls’s Professional Baseball League will function a Boston squad.
“Oh my God, it’s awesome,” Gov. Maura Healey mentioned Tuesday when requested in regards to the information, including that she “played baseball with the boys” by way of eighth grade and “never played softball.”
The league introduced Tuesday that its first 4 groups might be based mostly in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco as a result of their “fan support, market size, media presence and rich baseball histories.”
The league’s summer season tryouts at Nationals Park in Washington D.C. drew greater than 600 gamers. A prospect record has been posted and the highest 100 gamers from tryouts will advance to a draft scheduled for November.
Whereas Boston and different cities hunt for methods to affix the WNBA, Healey famous the Boston Fleet girls’s professional hockey crew is enjoying video games and the Boston Legacy girls’s professional soccer crew plans to launch in 2026.
“I want to make Massachusetts the hub of women’s professional sports,” mentioned Healey, a former professional basketball participant. “We’re on our way. We’ve got a lot of great teams here.”
Healey didn’t have any insights on the place Boston’s new baseball crew will play its video games. The league mentioned its first season might be performed in a single or two impartial areas.
“I haven’t been involved in discussions,” she mentioned. “I’m just a big cheerleader for the sport. Whatever we can do to make it the absolute best venue for these women and for the fan experience, we want to do. So I look forward to more discussions with folks in the days, weeks, months ahead.”
