{"id":290288,"date":"2026-07-08T14:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/290288\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:26:07","slug":"l-a-s-womens-pro-baseball-league-team-will-be-known-as-the-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/290288\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A.’s Women’s Pro Baseball League team will be known as the Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The newest Los Angeles professional sports team finally has a name.<\/p>\n

The Women\u2019s Pro Baseball League<\/a> announced on Wednesday that the Los Angeles Queens would be one of the four inaugural members of the league.<\/p>\n

According to the league, the name \u201cQueens\u201d was inspired by former player Lizzie Murphy, known as the \u201cQueen of the Diamond\u201d and was the first woman to play against major league players in 1922 as a part of a charity baseball game in Boston.<\/p>\n

Murphy played first base for several barnstorming teams in the 1920s.<\/p>\n

The other three team names announced were the Boston Hunters, San Francisco Firebells and New York Heights.<\/p>\n

The Queens\u2019 roster is highlighted by former Little League star Mo\u2019nae Davis<\/a> and Savannah Bananas fan favorite Ashton Lansdell.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles will play New York in the league\u2019s first ever contest<\/a> in Springfield, Illinois, on August 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The newest Los Angeles professional sports team finally has a name. The Women\u2019s Pro Baseball League announced on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[18724,7064,110955,102442,110957,74141,63796,26945,9,24,110954,63,110953,122,124,123,110956,85673,6095,4903],"class_list":["post-290288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-name","tag-boston","tag-charity-baseball-game","tag-contest","tag-first-base","tag-l-a","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-murphy","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-heights","tag-nyc","tag-pro-baseball-league-team","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-san-francisco-firebells","tag-springfield","tag-woman","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}