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Jun 30, 2017 · At one point, the young actress Moira Kelly was meant to play Kit, but Kelly injured herself on the set of The Cutting Edge and couldn’t participate. Much of the casting took place during pilot...
Jul 1, 2022 · Kelly Candaele, one of Helen's five boys, didn't think much of those tales nor the fact his mom could hold her own playing catch in the backyard of their Lompoc, Calif., home. It wasn't until the mid-1960s, when a young Kelly had an epiphany about the family matriarch.
11 Videos. 99+ Photos. Baseball Comedy Drama Sport. During World War II, sisters Dottie and Kit join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amid their own growing rivalry. Director. Penny Marshall. Writers. Kim Wilson. Kelly Candaele. Lowell Ganz. Stars. Tom Hanks. Geena Davis. Lori Petty.
Dec 22, 2018 · In her autobiography, whose cover showed Marshall outfitted in catcher’s gear, she described the barriers and sexism she faced from the male executives who doubted her abilities. Studio ...
- A 2,000-Page “Research Bible” Guided The Series’ Storytelling
- The Show Had to Go More Personal For Max’s Story
- Max’s Journey with The Game Had to Be Different Than The Peaches
- Max Being A Pitcher Has Significance on and Offscreen For Black Players
- How Max Found Her Team Was About More Than The Sports Drama
- Max’s Queer Storyline Helped Bridge The Past and Present
- Max’s Team Stretched Beyond The Field Through Its Portrayal of Black Rockford
A League of Their Ownrecruited a large team throughout the production process to help re-create this moment in baseball history — from former players, their descendants and academics to series researchers, writers and department heads. Consulting producer Liz Koe led the charge for the pilot, alongside researcher Niko Gutierrez-Kovner, who began th...
With limited information about the history of Black baseball and softball players, the series relied on oral histories and pulled from the available research on three Black female Negro Leagues players: Toni Stone, Mamie Johnson and Connie Morgan. CHANTÉ ADAMS, actressWhen I read the script, I thought, “OK, if they’re doing a remake in this era, yo...
Max and the Peaches’ stories begin on the same field, but those involved with the show emphasize that, as a Black woman, Max’s experience would not have been the same as that of her white counterparts, according to their research. It helps explain why Max’s story involves less field time and gameplay. ADAMSA lot of people when they talk to me, they...
In the series, Max is a pitcher — a position the creative team chose based on their research of the Black female Negro Leagues players as well as Black women like Harris in softball. It was a choice that visually upped the dramatic stakes the few times Max did get to play, but it also speaks to the real and discriminatory treatment of Black pitcher...
A League of Their Own was prepared to take on the disparities in the player experiences of Black and white women during the 1940s. But because of its diverse writers’ room, it was also looking to unpack the shared experiences among Black women and queer people. ADAMSThe difference between that first moment and the moment that she gets on the mound,...
The show carved out space for the history of not only Black women in baseball but also Black queer people in the series’ expanded telling of ’40s female-led baseball. The decision was partly inspired by the real-life stories of female queer players but also by a desire in the writers room to connect the past with the present. REFFI’m queer, Abbi’s ...
Because Max was not able to immediately take to the field, her journey to playing was defined as much by what happened off the mound within the Black working community of Rockford. To tell that part of her story, the series pulled from real Rockford residents’ experiences with baseball as well as factory life in the 1940s, while leaning on archival...
Jul 1, 2024 · A true labor of love, the final product took years to come together, starting with the 1987 documentary of the same name, co-created by Kim Wilson and Kelly Candaele, whose mom Helen Callaghan,...
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Aug 17, 2022 · This spring, eight women are expected to play on all-male college teams—an all-time peak. Some women have even played professional minor league baseball. Ila Borders—the first woman to receive a scholarship for men’s college baseball—played in several professional minor leagues from 1997 to 2000.
