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A League of Their Own

Cast

Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Madonna View All


Crew

Penny Marshall (Director), Lowell Ganz (Screenplay), Babaloo Mandel (Screenplay), Kim Wilson (Writer) View All

Release: Jul. 1st, 1992
Runtime: 2 hours, 8 minutes
As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey (Garry Marshall). Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis) and Kit Keller (Lori Petty) spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino (Jon Lovitz) and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) on their way to fame. Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell...
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So what happens when all the men are busy fighting ? You recruit the women to do the manly chores, naturally. One such "chore" is playing baseball, and A League of Their Own sheds some light...
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Watching "A League Of Their Own" a few nights ago, I recalled how good the music score was having listened to it many times...and how buried in crowd noise it was in the movie. I decide to ...

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Yoda
The AAGPBL was, within this summer sport, a little summer of its own, an ephemeral league based around an ephemeral game, a day in the sun to distract us from the winter of the war.
Citizen Rules
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was a women's professional baseball league founded by Philip K.
Thief
This pretty much encapsulates the general attitude of people back in 1943, when World War II forced baseball owners to create a female baseball league so they could still make profits.
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