Softball

6/3/2025 |  MLB Finally Backs Women’s Softball: It's About Damn Time (DEADSPIN) Major League Baseball made a significant — if overdue — statement in 1947 when the Brooklyn Dodgers promoted Jackie Robinson.
Everybody gets a chance to play.
The partnership MLB recently announced with the nascent Athletes Unlimited Softball League isn’t a women’s lib repeat of Robinson’s modern racial integration. An initiative for professional softball doesn’t create a path for MLB’s first female ballplayer. Not literally tomorrow, anyway.

5/30/2025 |  MLB diving into women's professional sport with softball investment (Reuters Sports) NEW YORK, May 29 (Reuters) - Major League Baseball is making a big bet on the business of women's sport, announcing on Thursday its first significant financial investment in a women's professional softball league.
The Athletes Unlimited Softball League launches on June 7 in a first-of-its-kind, wide-ranging partnership with minority investor MLB, the standard-bearer of "America's pastime" for well over a century.

5/29/2025 |  MLB invests in Athletes Unlimited Softball League ahead of June debut (Associated Press (AP)) Major League Baseball is investing in Athletes Unlimited to support its softball league that will debut next month, marking the first time MLB will have a comprehensive partnership with a professional women’s sports league.

5/29/2025 |  Major League Baseball to make major investment in women’s professional softball league (CNBC Sports) MLB is making a strategic investment in a women’s professional softball league as women’s sports boom.
The deal will give visibility and capital to Athletes Unlimited Softball League.
The league will kick off its first season this June.

5/21/2025 |  Women’s College World Series is shaping up to be an SEC showcase with 9 of 16 remaining teams (Associated Press (AP))

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Softball’s super regionals are looking a lot like a Southeastern Conference tournament.
Liberty knocked out top overall seed Texas A&M, an SEC member, in the regional round. Even without the Aggies, nine of the 16 remaining teams are from the powerhouse conference and could qualify for the Women’s College World Series by winning two of three in super regionals this weekend.