A Leauge of Their Own

A League of Their Own is a movie about the first season of the All American Girls

Professional Baseball League, and the struggles to keep women’s baseball alive while men from the major league teams join the military to fight during World War II. While the movie does not use real names, director Penny Marshall aims for realism by using stories told by the real women who were in fact a part of the original League. Tom Hanks stars as Jimmy Dugan, who is a washed up former baseball player, hired to coach in the All-American Girls Baseball League of

1943. Jon Lovitz stars in the beginning of the movie as a sarcastic scout who recruits Dottie

Hinson, played by Geena Davis. Teammates Mae played by Madonna, Kit played by Lori Petty and Doris played by Rosie O'Donnell round out the cast roster of the Rockford Peaches. The story follows the girls who take the team to the World Series during a time when the league might not make it past the first season. (www.imdb.com)

In the beginning of the movie, Walter Harvey a candy bar tycoon, hires Ira Lowenstein to come up with a solution to keep baseball going in America while most of the professional baseball players in the minor and major leagues are fighting the war overseas. The solution……a girls baseball league. Talent scouts, are sent off to find the best female ball players from all over the country. One of the talent scouts, Ernie Capadino, finds two female ball players from a small farm in Oregon, Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller, who are sisters and the main characters of the story. Ernie Capadino only offers Dottie a tryout for the upcoming league and not her sister Kit, as he thinks she is not good enough for the league. Dottie initially declines, but Kit desperately wants... ... middle of paper ...

...ball League and players into the

National Baseball Hall of Fame. (A League of Their Own) Fact, the National Baseball Hall of

Fame did recognize the women with a permanent "Women in Baseball" exhibit in 1988, however, none of the players were officially inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

(www.aagpbl.org)

In conclusion, the movie “A League of Their Own” was based off actual events of the

All-American Girls Professional Baseball League that ran from 1943 to 1954. The movie itself however, was just a Hollywood story version following the life of two sisters, Dottie and Kit, playing for the Rockford Peaches during the league’s first season in 1943. All of the characters in the movie were fictional and names were changed, but the characters themselves did in fact resemble a lot of the real players from the All Americans Girls Professional Baseball League.