A woman at the Clark Thread Co. in Acworth, GA at the beginning of WW II had a minor leaguer pitcher for a brother when she was small and he needed someone to throw to. She was elected. Every pitch knocked her down at first but she learned to stay on her feet and throw it back. When she got to high school she went out for the baseball and made the team. But when the school board heard about an unchaperoned girl riding in a bus full of boys she was kicked off. Every boy on the team then quit. Faced with no baseball team the board allowed her back on the team and paid a chaperone to go with her. The girl’s mother couldn’t believe all the boys would quit just because a girl was not allowed to play. So she went to a game and hid in the bushes beyond the outfield and watched as her daughter threw a perfect game, striking out every batter. Mom worked at Clark but married my father in 1943. I’ve always wondered if she was the woman who struck out Babe Ruth in Atlanta’s Ponce de Leon Park when the Yanks were in town for an exhibition.
jockellis, her name was Jackie Mitchell and she struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. It was in TN, though, not GA. It was a neighbor friend and not her brother that taught her about baseball. Jackie Mitchell did play in minor leagues baseball for several years. She even played in the women's professional baseball league until the mid 50's. The league disbanded in 1965.
@@sergeantmasson3669 What was in TN? My mom met this woman in Acworth, GA where she worked. Are you saying the HS game was in TN? IDK where she was from.
@@sergeantmasson3669 according to the Baseball Hall of Fame, Miss Mitchell went to work for her father. The girl I’m writing about worked in a thread factory near Atlanta.
Loving you forever R I P Penny Marshall Thank You for all of done for me and for all of the beautiful memories of Laverne and Shirley and all of your excellent movies
Soho Kitten, Geena Davis never played baseball, in her life, until 2 weeks before filming this movie began. She admitted that she wasn't athletic when she was growing up.
@@jaydeecee Although I love Field of Dreams too, the pure love of baseball gets mixed with a few other nostalgic emotions for me. Therefore, it's a strong third place on my list.
One thing about this movie that I remembered reading about was that the ladies in this, whenever they showed scenes where they'd gotten injuries during the games, that wasn't makeup Effects they were real injuries and these women actually got those injuries themselves Now that's commitment to realism
You’re absolutely right. Renee Coleman was the actress sporting that gigantic (and painfully real) strawberry during the World Series. It took over a year for that thing to subside and even to this day she has some numbness and blemishing in that part of her thigh.
Amazon Prime Video will exclusively premiere all eight episodes of A League of Their Own on Aug. 12, 2022. In addition to the U.S., this show will be available in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. It will have the same spirit as the movie.
Mostly, the movie is accurate. The real Dottie, however, played first base for 10 years and she was a great hitter/fielder. Her name was Dorothy Kamenshek and she was left-handed.
They chose the TRAIN STATION scene with Marla Hooch as the introduction to Ernie Capadino? The funniest scene was when he was talking to Dottie Hinson and Kitt Keller at the barn.
She used her star status to build up her part in this movie. I'm guessing that horrible scene where she cries that she's not going back to taxi dancing was added to placate her.
@@TheAureliac I read that she was horrible to the people in the hotel and wrote a letter to a friend saying Geena Davis was a Barbie and Chicago had no good looking men.
@@jaehaspels9607 ~ Somehow that doesn't surprise me. Madonna seems like one big snobby Diva, who thinks she should be kept up on a pedestal by everyone...
No my favorite part is when Rosie throws the ball at Dottie's younger sister and Dottie catches it with her bare hand shows it like she does at the sarcastic talking Rosie and Madonna then tosses back at them not saying a word to either. That was super cool. That shut them two ladies up😆 oh yeah. Like anymore smart remarks ladies.
One of my favourite movies, I have seen it many times. I watched it recently and for the first time I noticed this young actress and thought gee she looked familiar. Then I worked out that it was Tea Leoni. 🤓🤩
That's a great movie but that League came at the peak of the Yankees royalty or one of them when Mantle and the rest went wild so no attention was given them, I never heard of them until this picture. What I liked about Penny all of her movies could be watched by everyone and were true entertainment.
A Great, Great, Film! It was sad too hear of Penny Marshall's, passing ! May She n The Ladies of The AAGPBL, RIP, by Our Lord 🙏🙏. Anyone who plays the Game, has an interest, even just slightly,or the desire too play? Any of the many types, and varieties, of the Great Game! Should see This Movie? A League Of Thier Own. As Tony The Tiger 🐯🐯 would say? " IT'S GREAT "
Why did they call Wrigley Field Harvey Field? It should be obvious to everyone seeing the field itself that was Wrigley, plus the league was in Illinois.
It is a very depressing movie actually in spite of the funny scenes. It is about how women's baseball teams did exist as a "temporary replacement" for men's baseball teams during a war when men were all sent off to the battlefield., but then after a while (12 seasons should mean 12 years) there was no way for women to continue being baseball players after troops came home because the whole idea of women's baseball was just as a temporary solution to a lack of men being around to play baseball in front of a crowd. What happened to those baseball-playing women? They were completely forgotten-about even before the passing of two complete generations and only when this movie was made (I believe in the late 1980s or early 1990s) was the truth unearthed and a lot of people who thought that there was never a women's baseball team found out that there was one during the 1940s. The film is based on the fact that there was a women's base ball team in the US , though the story line about sisters joining up and eventually becoming at odds with each other is made up. But again the story is depressing because the women went on to live obscure lives until they were very old and until there was some recognition of women's baseball at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Also the story is sad because a lot of the women who played the game with each other mainly lost touch with each other and went their ways. The women who played baseball back then were un-sung pioneers and they are more deserving of recognition than a lot of today's females who shout about their rights without having had done anything ground breaking and just proclaim that their greatest accomplishment is being a stay at home mom and wife or "partner." (Still I wonder about how it meant that there weren't enough men around to play in baseball teams. Major league stars were sent off to war? Also with the kind of society it was back then, why wouldn't have someone thought of an "Older men's" team rather than women? The irony is that back then the people who went to see women play ball were men if they were not sent off to war. Also now-a-days when it is common to see women in sports, men and a lot of women just say that women's sports is nowhere near as fast and intense and exciting as men's sports. Women's sports is a novelty because it is no longer a novelty.).
L Martinez Because in WW2 when this was set, you were drafted. And basically, if you were a male between 21 and 45 you belonged to Uncle Sam. Any male between the ages of 18 and 64 were required to register for the draft and could be called to serve when they basically ran out of 21-45 year olds. The only way to not be accepted was to have a physical infirmary or disability that rendered you unable to fight. In fact WW2 is the reason for the Sole Surviving Son Act that was passed in 1948. (Read up on the Niland brothers and the tragedy of the Sullivan brothers and you’ll see why.) Because this war lasted for 6 years and approximately 16 million men were sent overseas during the war, there were, quite literally, no men in either good enough condition or young enough to play professionally. Hope that helps clear up some of your confusion.
@@agypsycircle Also, men who were fit enough to fight were generally expected to enlist. Most athletes and celebrities who chose not to were vilified. The major exception was John Wayne, who took his deferments and used the absence of better actors and bigger stars to build his career. He spent most of the rest of his career playing tough warriors.
@@MSUHitman But even without Williams serving time in WW2 and Korean War everyone knows he was one of the best hitters of all time. And him flying in the same squadron as John Glenn is a cool thing for his legacy more then missing those few years.
@@agypsycircle In addition to the medical exception there were also exceptions if you were performing a civilian function vital to the war. My father had been discharged from the navy for medical reasons in 1940 and went on to pilot fro United Airlines during the war so he was double exempted.
Most girls grow up playing fast pitch softball nowadays so if they had a girls league it would be a softball league. But I'm not sure if there would be a market for it.
I fell in love with Lori Petty during this movie. She's not the undisputed champion beauty queen that Geena Davis is. But her eyes and voice and emotive chops sucked me in. When Geena says "What are you saying, Kit?" and Lori says "I don't know, but I know I'm wrong. I know you're right and I'm wrong," my heart and soul gave her a great big drive-in theater-sized hug.
Geena Davis killed this role. Effortlessly.
Lori Petty played the role of the younger sister who's been living in the shadow of her older sister her whole life to a T.
A woman at the Clark Thread Co. in Acworth, GA at the beginning of WW II had a minor leaguer pitcher for a brother when she was small and he needed someone to throw to. She was elected. Every pitch knocked her down at first but she learned to stay on her feet and throw it back. When she got to high school she went out for the baseball and made the team. But when the school board heard about an unchaperoned girl riding in a bus full of boys she was kicked off. Every boy on the team then quit. Faced with no baseball team the board allowed her back on the team and paid a chaperone to go with her. The girl’s mother couldn’t believe all the boys would quit just because a girl was not allowed to play. So she went to a game and hid in the bushes beyond the outfield and watched as her daughter threw a perfect game, striking out every batter. Mom worked at Clark but married my father in 1943. I’ve always wondered if she was the woman who struck out Babe Ruth in Atlanta’s Ponce de Leon Park when the Yanks were in town for an exhibition.
jockellis, her name was Jackie Mitchell and she struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. It was in TN, though, not GA. It was a neighbor friend and not her brother that taught her about baseball. Jackie Mitchell did play in minor leagues baseball for several years. She even played in the women's professional baseball league until the mid 50's. The league disbanded in 1965.
@@sergeantmasson3669 What was in TN? My mom met this woman in Acworth, GA where she worked. Are you saying the HS game was in TN? IDK where she was from.
@@sergeantmasson3669 according to the Baseball Hall of Fame, Miss Mitchell went to work for her father. The girl I’m writing about worked in a thread factory near Atlanta.
@@sergeantmasson3669 dibanned in 1954 not 65
Loving you forever R I P Penny Marshall Thank You for all of done for me and for all of the beautiful memories of Laverne and Shirley and all of your excellent movies
Rosie and Madonna had such great chemistry.
i have seen this movie probably more times than i've seen any other movie in existence. one of my all time favorites
No one cares
@@Hoboscouts Considering your response, it seems that you care...
I care
Im in awe of Geena Davis' moves in this-awesome!☺
Soho Kitten, Geena Davis never played baseball, in her life, until 2 weeks before filming this movie began. She admitted that she wasn't athletic when she was growing up.
@@sergeantmasson3669 And then she took up archery and almost made it to the olympics. Some people are born with natural athleticism.
R I P Penny Marshall l will miss you l love this movie 🎥 so cool
Definitely my favorite movie of all! Go Peaches!!
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Go Belles!
It is my top-10 of all times as well
This and The Sandlot, my two favorite baseball movies.
Rob Hickman Mine 2
I find it interesting how The Sandlot has that line “Play ball like a girl” when it came out a year after A League Of Their Own
This and Major League. Watched them lots of times. And field of dreams, 8 men out.
@@jaydeecee Although I love Field of Dreams too, the pure love of baseball gets mixed with a few other nostalgic emotions for me. Therefore, it's a strong third place on my list.
It managed to capture on era gone much like the sandlot did the same of a decade or two later. Hardball was a good one as well
One of my favorite movie ever!....
So you're telling me that Kit laughing at the lady household was unscripted🤣🤣
RIP Penny Marshall
Anyone could watch this movie. Young, old. A classic baseball movie!
This a Rudy should be requiring viewing
One of my fave movies !!
Brilliant film and a great featurette. Thanks for posting.
LOL Tom! "Step, step, kick, FLING!" xD
One thing about this movie that I remembered reading about was that the ladies in this, whenever they showed scenes where they'd gotten injuries during the games, that wasn't makeup Effects they were real injuries and these women actually got those injuries themselves
Now that's commitment to realism
You’re absolutely right. Renee Coleman was the actress sporting that gigantic (and painfully real) strawberry during the World Series. It took over a year for that thing to subside and even to this day she has some numbness and blemishing in that part of her thigh.
"How it works is, the train moves, not the station" LMAO still kills
"Did you tell the cows you would write to them?"
Lol right? 😂
my mom played shortstop for her school and wanted to play in the aagl but it ended before she got the chance and damn could she throw a shoe!
😂
Excellent Movie ! - Glad that I was able to finally find some time to view it for the very first time : )
Great movie. It will make you cry.
I watch this movie. And then I watch it one more time.
i saw this in the theater. can't believe it's been 20 years since!
"Hi There" I think it has been 27 now
@@obscurelyvague I have the movie on DVD and bought it at a yard sale for $1.
☆30☆ now!
Geena Davis made that movie great!
This would be an amazing 8-10 show a season series on Netflix or Amazon.
You got your wish!
@@Diva369 what? When, where how? Fill me in.
Amazon Prime Video will exclusively premiere all eight episodes of A League of Their Own on Aug. 12, 2022. In addition to the U.S., this show will be available in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.
It will have the same spirit as the movie.
@@Diva369 you are the bestestest, what other awesome info does that wonderful brain possess?
So, did you see it?
Avoid the Clap! Jimmy Dugan, that's Good Advice Kid!!
"...okay, some of them are going home" lol
the barn and house is on my road in Evansville indiana
Who owns it?
did you know the house form roseanne is in that same city?
There's no crying in baseball!
Such a classic movie!
"Choo-choo" to all of them.
My new favorite movie.
I remember the clip of Madonna saying 'I'm gonna kill Tom for saying that.'
I've remembered that part for over 20 years but could never find it.
SUCH an ICONIC movie!
Love A league of their own
Always will be my favorite movie.😁
My favourite movie of all time
Mostly, the movie is accurate. The real Dottie, however, played first base for 10 years and she was a great hitter/fielder. Her name was Dorothy Kamenshek and she was left-handed.
I wanna learn how to swing dance... so bad
What Tom said is the absolute truth. There’s nothing better then running around the baseball diamond
I watched this movie as a kid, and had the biggest crush on Lori Petty
I think she plays for the other team, if you know what I mean?
@@johnny1963ify I thought she was on the baseball team. Did she betray us ? 😂 🐈
They chose the TRAIN STATION scene with Marla Hooch as the introduction to Ernie Capadino?
The funniest scene was when he was talking to Dottie Hinson and Kitt Keller at the barn.
nudist1033 omg I do disagree... “see, how it works is, the train moves, not the station”, it freakin kills me every time, he’s such a douche lol
I personally would've picked the scene at Dottie And Kit's farm, where John Lovitz's yells "Shut Up" at the cow
this movie is filmed at my schools baseball field and bosse! my school is St.Philip
Madonna is better as a support character, I like her more in this than in the movie she stared in...
She used her star status to build up her part in this movie. I'm guessing that horrible scene where she cries that she's not going back to taxi dancing was added to placate her.
@@TheAureliac I read that she was horrible to the people in the hotel and wrote a letter to a friend saying Geena Davis was a Barbie and Chicago had no good looking men.
@@jaehaspels9607 ~ Somehow that doesn't surprise me. Madonna seems like one big snobby Diva, who thinks she should be kept up on a pedestal by everyone...
All I have ever heard was great things about Madonna from Penny Marshall and the whole cast, and she was fantastic in this movie.
No my favorite part is when Rosie throws the ball at Dottie's younger sister and Dottie catches it with her bare hand shows it like she does at the sarcastic talking Rosie and Madonna then tosses back at them not saying a word to either. That was super cool. That shut them two ladies up😆 oh yeah. Like anymore smart remarks ladies.
I loved it when dugan kissed the chaperone
This is the movie that comes to mind when it comes to women empowerment.
Blooming love this film :)
Vic Dunkley Happens. Hi.
what a great movie....
I caught that, too. Mae was the leadoff hitter. She batted first in the lineup.
I gotta watch this :D
Madam Secretary played 1st base for Racine. That's Tea Leoni's skirt Lori Petty is lifting.
One of my favourite movies, I have seen it many times. I watched it recently and for the first time I noticed this young actress and thought gee she looked familiar. Then I worked out that it was Tea Leoni. 🤓🤩
That's a great movie but that League came at the peak of the Yankees royalty or one of them when Mantle and the rest went wild so no attention was given them, I never heard of them until this picture. What I liked about Penny all of her movies could be watched by everyone and were true entertainment.
12 Season😨# Should Have Never Ended😤
Avoid the clap...Jimmy Dugan
That's good advice!
I always wondered how the "big ragu" found his way into this picture.
Great movie.
I just joined your channel
A Great, Great, Film! It was sad too hear of Penny Marshall's, passing !
May She n The Ladies of The AAGPBL, RIP, by Our Lord 🙏🙏.
Anyone who plays the Game, has an interest, even just slightly,or the desire too play? Any of the many types, and varieties, of the Great Game! Should see This Movie? A League Of Thier Own.
As Tony The Tiger 🐯🐯 would say? " IT'S GREAT "
A documentary under 7 minutes??...
The scout only appeared in the beginning and he was gone. He did not show up in the movie again.
Why did they call Wrigley Field Harvey Field? It should be obvious to everyone seeing the field itself that was Wrigley, plus the league was in Illinois.
They couldn't get permission to use the name Wrigley.
Which is probably why they called it "Harvey Bars" instead of who was really behind funding this, Wrigley...
Yep, that's Lori Petty !! She looks much different than she did in Tank Girl, doesn't she?
were can i found the movie complete?
This guy clearly didn't watch the movie. Madonna was a contact hitter. The HOOCH batted clean up, fa show.
This is not documentary. Anyone know where to find the real one that inspired the movie?
I love this movie in spite of it having Rosie in the cast.
PODRIAN PONER EN ESPAÑOL
I'd be "all the way Rae"...no lie 😂
Hey yourself!
Madonna Ciccone beautiful as a brunette
Probably because she's naturally a brunette.
Of course, that's her natural color hair. Not that washed out blonde junk she dyes her hair in...
Cool movie
Mae wasn't clean-up, that was Marla Hooch.. Hooch.
Clean up in that since means clean up on catching the runs by catching the balls in outfield.
I believe you meant *Ad...
I miss the old Madonna with the thick Italian accent
I love women.
Seven years and no like !!! I got you
First like for that comment.
I love Madonna
Madonna was the leadoff! "All the way, Mae!"
"Meg Saj" what is the "leadoff"?
L Martinez the first batter in the lineup is called the lead off.
and Marla Hooch was the clean up. What a hitter!
@@jaehaspels9607 Dottie probably batted 3rd, I would guess that Doris batted 2nd but that's just a guess.
Cast from A to Z made the movie, not a weak scene.
what?? why did she hate it?
It is a very depressing movie actually in spite of the funny scenes. It is about how women's baseball teams did exist as a "temporary replacement" for men's baseball teams during a war when men were all sent off to the battlefield., but then after a while (12 seasons should mean 12 years) there was no way for women to continue being baseball players after troops came home because the whole idea of women's baseball was just as a temporary solution to a lack of men being around to play baseball in front of a crowd. What happened to those baseball-playing women? They were completely forgotten-about even before the passing of two complete generations and only when this movie was made (I believe in the late 1980s or early 1990s) was the truth unearthed and a lot of people who thought that there was never a women's baseball team found out that there was one during the 1940s. The film is based on the fact that there was a women's base ball team in the US , though the story line about sisters joining up and eventually becoming at odds with each other is made up. But again the story is depressing because the women went on to live obscure lives until they were very old and until there was some recognition of women's baseball at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Also the story is sad because a lot of the women who played the game with each other mainly lost touch with each other and went their ways. The women who played baseball back then were un-sung pioneers and they are more deserving of recognition than a lot of today's females who shout about their rights without having had done anything ground breaking and just proclaim that their greatest accomplishment is being a stay at home mom and wife or "partner."
(Still I wonder about how it meant that there weren't enough men around to play in baseball teams. Major league stars were sent off to war? Also with the kind of society it was back then, why wouldn't have someone thought of an "Older men's" team rather than women? The irony is that back then the people who went to see women play ball were men if they were not sent off to war. Also now-a-days when it is common to see women in sports, men and a lot of women just say that women's sports is nowhere near as fast and intense and exciting as men's sports. Women's sports is a novelty because it is no longer a novelty.).
L Martinez Because in WW2 when this was set, you were drafted. And basically, if you were a male between 21 and 45 you belonged to Uncle Sam. Any male between the ages of 18 and 64 were required to register for the draft and could be called to serve when they basically ran out of 21-45 year olds. The only way to not be accepted was to have a physical infirmary or disability that rendered you unable to fight. In fact WW2 is the reason for the Sole Surviving Son Act that was passed in 1948. (Read up on the Niland brothers and the tragedy of the Sullivan brothers and you’ll see why.) Because this war lasted for 6 years and approximately 16 million men were sent overseas during the war, there were, quite literally, no men in either good enough condition or young enough to play professionally. Hope that helps clear up some of your confusion.
@@agypsycircle Also, men who were fit enough to fight were generally expected to enlist. Most athletes and celebrities who chose not to were vilified. The major exception was John Wayne, who took his deferments and used the absence of better actors and bigger stars to build his career. He spent most of the rest of his career playing tough warriors.
@@TheAureliac Yeah it affected the careers of people like Ted Williams, who lost enough years & at-bats to not finish his career with 3k hits.
@@MSUHitman But even without Williams serving time in WW2 and Korean War everyone knows he was one of the best hitters of all time. And him flying in the same squadron as John Glenn is a cool thing for his legacy more then missing those few years.
@@agypsycircle In addition to the medical exception there were also exceptions if you were performing a civilian function vital to the war. My father had been discharged from the navy for medical reasons in 1940 and went on to pilot fro United Airlines during the war so he was double exempted.
They were more tuff than the men... sliding with skirts...forget that!
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Madonna later said that she hated filming this movie. Everyone else had a blast though.
"aburg10s" Interesting
Not true.
There should be a chicks league like in the old days.
Most girls grow up playing fast pitch softball nowadays so if they had a girls league it would be a softball league. But I'm not sure if there would be a market for it.
IWISH COLLEGE HAD WOMEN BASEBALL TEAMS THEY COULD PLAY WHEN SOFTBALL WASNT PLAYED
Madonna's character did not hit clean-up. She was a lead off batter.
6:04 what is she doing to her? 😁😅
S M A P A Y E N
Don't make movies like this anymore. In a league all its own
madonna didnt bat cleanup why do they get shit wrong in these things
Biggest misconception in the movie was that Lori Petty was less attractive than Geena Davis.
Lori Petty was cute as hell in the film.
I fell in love with Lori Petty during this movie. She's not the undisputed champion beauty queen that Geena Davis is. But her eyes and voice and emotive chops sucked me in. When Geena says "What are you saying, Kit?" and Lori says "I don't know, but I know I'm wrong. I know you're right and I'm wrong," my heart and soul gave her a great big drive-in theater-sized hug.
Biggest misconception about this comment is that women should be judged on their physical attractiveness, rather than their ability to...PLAY BALL!!
Grena Davis is hot. Lori Petty has great eyes and was great in Point Break also
Both women were beautiful, as were they all, including Rosie! Beauty is deeper than skin!
Who says girls can't play baseball?
Who says women can't throw?
Given them a league of their own to play
Then stand back and get out of their way!
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Not for me since it's MALWARE.
Madonna was leadoff hitter. Hooch was clean up
Good movies. Would have been much better if not for one way over weight one on it. She ruined it for me.
Yeah, too bad they weren't all as slim as Babe Ruth. There have been a lot of overweight male baseball players.
They play baseball while their husbands are at world war 2.
One of my favorite movies.
There’s no crying in baseball!!
Where can I found the movie complete ?