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Aug 12, 2022 · Queer people and their stories are at the heart of A League of Their Own—and the real league. A League of Their Own has become an iconic queer movie despite having no openly gay characters ...
- Dottie Hinson Is Based Loosely on The Real Face of The Rockford Peaches
- The Racine Belles Won The First Championship
- One Offensive Team Name Would Never Fly Today
- Garry Marshall’s Walter Harvey Character Is Based on Philip K. Wrigley
- Philip K. Wrigley Was Selling Sex and Americana
- Managers Had Rather Unique Problems
- Some Players Were Even More Viciously Competitive Than Kit
- The Public Image of Female Ballplayers Was as Bad as It Gets
- The Real-Life Peaches Pitched Differently
- Wrigley Demanded His Girls All Have A Squeaky Clean Image
Geena Davis' character, Dottie Hinson, was inspired by real-life player Dorothy “Kammie” Kamenshek. A left-handed first baseman and outfielder, Kammie was the most feared hitter in the league, and a perennial all-star. Her movie counterpart, Dottie, is a right-handed catcher. Unlike Hinson, who retires after one season in the film, Kammie played fo...
In the movie, after being traded from the Peaches to the Belles, Kit (Lori Petty)famously runs over Dottie, knocking the ball from Dottie's hand to win the first AAGPBL championship. The Belles did win in 1943. But it wasn't the Peaches they beat. The Kenosha Comets fell to the Belles that first year. And, sorry movie lovers, the Rockford Peaches f...
Debate rages these days about team names like the Cleveland Indians or, more ferociously, the Washington Redskins. But there was a AAGPBL team whose "questionable" name no one batted an eye at way back when. That team? The Milwaukee Chicks! Sure, feminine names were the idea (the Daisies, the Lassies, the Belles), but this one’s a bit too on the no...
Suspecting America’s pastime might be a thing of the past with the onset of World War II, Philip K. Wrigley stepped up to the plate. A chewing gum tycoon and eventual owner of the Chicago Cubs, Wrigley launched the AAGPBL in 1943. Early in the movie, we learn that Walter Harvey (Garry Marshall)is a chewing gum magnate who is trying to start a women...
1943 was a time of unity, when Americans banded together in support of the European and Pacific theater struggles. Wrigley wanted his AAGPBL players to represent that American spirit. So much so, that they could be fined for unbecoming conduct. This is certainly the impression one gets while watching the film. We see girls in short skirts hamming i...
The rambunctious brat Stillwell is a constant annoyance for Peaches manager Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks)in the film. There may not have been any Stilwells wreaking havoc in real-life, but players becoming pregnant was always a possibility. Real life player Dottie Collins pitched for the Fort Wayne Daisies, well into her second trimester. Even more alarm...
Everyone remembers Kit’s climactic inside-the-park home run, ending with her bowling over Dottie to win the title for the Belles. And this was well within baseball rules up until only a few years ago. But it’s not even close to the lengths the real players went. One player - Pepper Paire Davis - once punched an umpire in the face, knocking him flat...
Whether they like it or not, professional athletes are looked up to as role models. There are some bad seeds in the lot, no doubt, but most male athletes don’t have to prove to children and families that they aren’t prostitutes. This was the reputation of the women who played softball before the AAGPBL began. Traveling teams were known as “Bloomer ...
In the film, the players throw overhand, like baseball pitchers. Historically, this took some time. Since most of the women came from softball, the hurlers threw underhanded, but in modified fashion. This style continued until 1946, the league’s fourth season. That year, a limited side-arm option was adopted, which quickly led to full side-arm thro...
In part to combat the lewd public image of female softball players, and also to market something entirely fresh, league founder Wrigley sought to wipe the slate as clean as he could. And he meant business. Rules were clear and direct. If a player’s hair was not at shoulder length - or not in bobs - she would be fined. If she wore slacks or shorts o...
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A League of Their Own is a 1992 American sports comedy drama film directed by Penny Marshall that tells a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL).
Aug 23, 2022 · Something shown in the series that rather shockingly mirrors real life, is how the women were forced to attend a charm school, where they would learn beauty routines and take etiquette classes in...
Aug 10, 2022 · Ever since its release in 1992, the women’s baseball film A League of Their Own established itself as an instant classic, beloved by sporty girls, baseball fans, and everyone in-between.
Aug 11, 2022 · Are the characters in A League of Their Own based on real people? Here's what's real and what's not about the Amazon Prime Video reboot of the 1992 film.
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Aug 11, 2022 · Abbi Jacobson, D'Arcy Carden, and Chante Adams lead the cast of the new Prime Video series A League of Their Own.
