Kelsie Whitmore made more history on Thursday night when she was picked first overall by the San Francisco franchise in the Women’s Pro Baseball League inaugural draft.

Less than an hour later, Livermore’s Arwen McCullough had her dream come true when she also became part of her new hometown team’s history-making draft class.

Whitmore, 27, already has strong Bay Area ties and has long been a pioneer for women in baseball. In 2016, she and Stacy Piagno played for the independent Sonoma Stompers on the Pacific Association, becoming the first female teammates in a men’s league since the 1950s. Two summers ago, Whitmore became the first woman in the history of the independent Pioneer League to start a game as a pitcher, playing for the Oakland Ballers. Last season she played for the barnstor

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