Syracuse, N.Y. — A Syracuse city cop has been selected in the first draft for a new women’s professional baseball league.

Nadia Diaz , who played Little League and high school baseball locally before joining the Syracuse Police Department, was taken in the sixth round of the Women’s Professional Baseball League draft Thursday night.

The WPBL is the first pro women’s baseball league since the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940s and ’50s and is set to begin play next August in Springfield, Illinois.

The draft was streamed on the league’s TikTok, Instagram and YouTube feeds.

There are four teams in the newly formed league: Boston, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Each team took 30 players, but only 15 players will make the roster.

Since Diaz was Boston’s

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