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MLB Announces 'Strategic Investment' In Professional Softball League

A softball and a softball glove on the field. | Jamie Schwaberow/NCAA Photos via Getty Images

The women's sports explosion continues.

Major League Baseball will be making a "strategic investment" in the new AUSL—Athletes Unlimited Softball League—in a "first-of-its-kind, comprehensive partnership with a women's professional sports league," the body announced Thursday.

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