More than a decade after starring in the Little League World Series, Mo’ne Davis will be back on the diamond for the inaugural season of the Women’s Professional Baseball League.
Davis, the 10th overall pick in the WPBL draft, officially signed with the Los Angeles franchise, the league announced on Monday, Dec. 22.
Davis took the nation by storm as a 13-year-old in 2014 as the only girl on her team from Philadelphia. Displaying a 70 mph fastball, she tossed a shutout in her first game of the tournament and became an instant celebrity.
She went on to play basketball and collegiate softball at Hampton University, and earned a graduate degree from Columbia.
Now an outfielder at age 24, Davis will be one of the major attractions as the WPBL begins play next August with four teams – Los Angeles, Boston, New York and San Francisco – competing at a neutral site in Springfield, Illinois.