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A League of Their Own: All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
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A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (PG) From its jokey, one-note characters to its endless baseball montages, Penny Marshall's genial comedy is all flash, all surface: It's a great big trailer for itself. Telling the story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, Marshall doesn't stage scenes, exactly; she piles on bits. Then, after nearly two hours of sunny, innocuous baseball- movie cliches-Madonna dropping one-liners that would have seemed tame to Mae West; Tom Hanks, as the scuzzy coach, recovering his self-respect-the movie veers off into heavy-duty inspirational terrain. The characters reunite and engage in the sort of misty-eyed bonding that made a sleeper smash out of Fried Green Tomatoes. C+
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In 1943 when the ranks of professional male baseball players were leaving for the war, a group of ladies left their homes to become part of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and kept baseball alive for a grateful nation. This is their story. Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis) is the team's most gifted player,and the camaraderie and jealousy with her sister (Lori Petty) is part of this film's charm and complexity. Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) is the drunken ex-player and slob manager who eventually brings the team to success. Directed by Penny Marshall (BIG, AWAKENINGS) and ... starring Madonna, Jon Lovitz and Bill Pullman.
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A League of Their Own is an American film of 1992 which gives a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The film starred Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna and Lori Petty in the leading roles and was directed by Penny Marshall. In April 1993 a TV series based on the film aired on the CBS with Garry Marshall, Megan Cavanagh and Jon Lowitz reprising their roles but it was quickly pulled out
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Penny Marshall’s fictional account of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League has no mind of its own. Marshall directed it with both eyes on the audience. She and the screenwriting team of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel slap together a bare-bones narrative (about the league’s 1943 début season) and dress it up with set-piece gags and sentimental ploys. All they want is for people to come out saying that they laughed and they cried. The lead characters are Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis) and her kid sister, Kit Keller (Lori Petty), who catch and pitch, respectively, for the Rockford Peaches and act out their sibling tensions on the baseball diamond and in the locker room. Tom Hanks mugs ingratiatingly as Jimmy Dugan, the Rockford coach and an alcoholic former slugger, and Madonna sashays through the supporting role of All the Way Mae, a ballplayer who tests the league’s deportment code.
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A League of Their Own is a 1992 film that tells a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). It starred Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Madonna and Lori Petty. It was adapted by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel from a story by Kim Wilson and Kelly Candaele, and was directed by Penny Marshall.
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During the early to late 1940s the Rockford Peaches (of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League) were one of the first all-female baseball teams in the world. They played their home games at Beyer Stadium which was razed several years ago. A placard displays where the stadium once stood, along with additional historical information. Although the 1992 motion picture "A League of Their Own" features the Rockford Peaches, all of the characters playing on the team were fictional. The team... did lose the league championship in 1943 as depicted in the film. The Peaches won the league championship in 1945, 1948, 1949, and 1950.
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