The Women's Baseball League is also abbreviated WBL.

Women's Basketball League or WBL was an attempt to establish a professional women's basketball league in the United States. The league played three seasons from the fall of 1978 to the spring of 1981. The league is generally considered to the be the first American professional women's basketball league to be founded.

Teams

• California Dreams (1979-80)
• Chicago Hustle (1978-81)
• Dallas Diamonds (1979-81)
• Dayton Rockettes (1978-79)
• Houston Angels (1978-80)
• Iowa Cornets (1978-80)
• Milwaukee Does (1978-80)
• Minnesota Fillies (1978-81)
• Nebraska Wranglers (1980-81)
• New England Gulls (1980-81)
• New Jersey Gems (1978-81)
• New Orleans Pride (1979-81)
• New York Stars (1978-80)
• Philadelphia Fox (1979-80)
• St. Louis Streak (1979-81)
• San Francisco Pioneers (1979-81)
• Washington Metros (1979-80)

Champions of WBL

• 1978-79 Houston Angels
• 1979-80 New York Stars
• 1980-81 Nebraska Wranglers

Selected Notable Players

• Ann Meyers , top pick in the WBL draft in 1979, WBL MVP for the 1979-1980 season, now a basketball broadcaster for ESPN
• Carol Blazejowski
• Donna Geils , now Donna Orender, President of the WNBA
• Nancy Lieberman
• "Machine Gun" Molly Bolin

See also

• Women's National Basketball Association
• American Basketball League 1996-98

External links

• John Molina's WBL page
• WBL logos