It was a regular workday, a Monday, for the rest of Washington, D.C., but inside Nationals Park, it was the final day of tryouts for the new Women's Professional Baseball League. This will be the first of its kind since the dissolution of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League-a wartime entertainment that gave hundreds of women the opportunity to play baseball in front of paying fans, but which fell apart in the early 1950s due to mismanagement and dwindling attendance.
U.S. Open Ball Crew Lead Neal Kitson described the ball crew's role as essential for a seamless transition in play, likening it to a Broadway stage crew.