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A League of Their Own: Baseball Hall
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A League of Their Own was released on 1st July 1992 and by the second week it reached the top of the charts. It was a commercial success and was ... well-received by the critics. One of the most memorable lines from the film, “There’s no crying! There’s no crying in baseball” was rated 54th on the American Film Institute’s list of the greatest film quotes of all times. Wikipedia
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Although many players enlisted or were drafted into the military, Major League Baseball did not shut down for World War II. As mentioned in the film, President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided that keeping professional baseball and football active, even with the necessarily depleted talent pool, would be good for the morale of American soldiers overseas.
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Baseball fans everywhere can take joy in the fact that a Special Edition version of A League of Their Own is now on DVD. Upgraded from it's previous DVD release, this version packs on more special features as well as a high definition transfer.
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The idea -- minor-league baseball in the suburbs, in the shadow of The Show -- intrigued him. Kaval promptly called Eastlake's mayor, met with the man who ran the Lake County Captains and started to hatch his own little dream.
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