More than a decade ago, Mo’ne Davis took the baseball world by storm as a Little League World Series icon who donned the cover of Sports Illustrated. She’s since earned an Ivy League graduate degree and happily ended her competitive sports career to dive headfirst into adulthood. But Davis’ path to the corner office took a wild left turn as she spent a muggy weekend in Washington, D.C., taking cuts in a batting cage, prepping for her unexpected return to the diamond via the newly formed Women’s Professional Baseball League. The WPBL aims to make the most significant impact on women’s baseball since the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which operated from 1943 to 1954 and inspired the hit movie “A League of Their Own.” Jeneane Lesko and Maybelle Blair, former All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players, were on hand to watch tryouts. Davis was among hundreds of women who shuttled around the diamonds and batting cages at the Washington Nationals’ youth aca...