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{{quote|"Are you crying? Are you crying?
As all the best baseball stars went off to fight [[World War II|the good war]], something had to be done to get baseball stadiums busy. One man's solution: Create the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. This is their story.
To be more concise, '''''A League of Their Own''''' is a 1992 film directed by [[Penny Marshall]], starring her brother [[Garry Marshall|Garry]], and featuring [[Geena Davis]], [[
Spawned a [[Recycled:
The movie was named to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2012.
Not to be confused with the British sports panel show of the same name.▼
▲Not to be confused with [[A League of Their Own (British game show)|the British sports panel show of the same name]].
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* [[Ask a Stupid Question]]:
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'''Dottie Hinson''': Bob?
'''Jimmy Dugan''': No, Hitler. Yes, Bob.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Dottie returns just in time for the final game of the world series. {{spoiler|Subverted in that they ''lose''.}}
* [[Big Game]]
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Doris. Makes sense, since she was a bouncer at a strip club.
* [[Book Ends]]: The elderly Dottie attending the league's induction into the baseball hall of fame.
* [[Bottomless Bladder]]: Jimmy subverts this.
** [[Overly Long Gag|Eventually.]]
* [[Call Back]]: The iconic "THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!!" rant quoted above comes after Evelyn bursts into tears when manager Jimmy Dugan rips her for missing the cutoff (wo-)man on a throw from the outfield. During the final game of the World Series, she makes the identical error, allowing Racine to score their first run. She finally gets it right in the climactic scene when she fields Kit's base hit deep in the gap and uncorks an excellent throw to the cutoff man,
** Evelyn burst into tears after Jimmy screamed at her, "Start using your head! That's the lump that's three feet above your ass!" Later:
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'''Doris:''' That's that lump three feet above our ass, right, Jimmy?
'''Jimmy:''' Some more prominent than others, there, Doris.
* [[Chick Flick]] -- or rather, a [[Deconstruction]] of the very term.
* [[Confessional]]: "That's the second time he's dropped that bible[...] Mae, what'd you say?" "[[Anything That Moves|Everything]]."
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Ira Lowenstein has some good moments:
** "That was some good coaching. I particularly liked that play in the fifth inning where you scratched your balls for an hour."
** And, in the same scene: "Hey Jimmy if I paid you a little more could you be just a little more disgusting?"
* [[Death Notification]]: One of the girls gets a telegram telling her that her husband was killed in action. The man delivering the telegram [[What an Idiot!|somehow didn't realize]] that he never bothered to find out which woman on the team was supposed to receive the letter, causing some angst.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: A minor thing--but the road trip that Dottie and her husband go on at the end of the movie would have been impossible during World War II gasoline rationing.
* [[Down to
* [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry]]: Dottie and Kit in the worst way.
* [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: Kit towards Dottie somewhat.
* [[I Am Not Left
* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: All of the Peaches.
* [[Jackie Robinson Story]]
* [[Jerk
** Also Ernie Capadino, though not the same number of karats.
* [[Meaningful Echo]]: Dottie and Kit's argument about hitting high fast balls turns endearing at the end.
* [[Men Don't Cry]]: Or, more precisely, real BASEBALL PLAYERS don't cry, as the page quote states.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: A Western Union Man barges in on the Peaches as they ready for a game
** Whipped back in the next scene, where Dottie is openly weeping in her room, knowing what happened to {{spoiler|Betty}} could have happened to her, too, when the door opens, revealing her husband Bob, discharged after being injured. The joy and relief on Dottie's face is palpable.
* [[Never Learned to Read]]: Shirley.
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'''Evelyn:''' Mae. What are you giving her to read?!
'''Mae:''' Oh, what the difference does it make? She's reading, okay?
* [[Newsreel]]: "Betty Grable has nothing on these gals!"
* [[Nobody Poops]]: Gloriously averted in the scene where Tom Hanks takes an extraordinarily long pee.
** It's so long Mae pulls out a ''stopwatch''. "He ain't done yet!"
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Jimmy Dugan represents Jimmie Foxx, who managed the Fort Wayne Daisies in the real league, and Walter Harvey the candy bar magnate founder was inserted in place of P.K. Wrigley, the gum magnate founder of the real league.
* [[Refused
▲* [[Refused By the Call]]: The league scout has no real interest in Kit only recruits her because her older sister won't join without her. This builds up resentment on her part (she had already spent her life in her Dottie's shadow) that culminates when the Dottie goes to the bosses saying they just can't play on the same team anymore (hoping to be traded) and accidentally gets her little sister shipped off to another team.
* [[Save Our Team|Save Our League]]
* [[Sibling Rivalry]]: Dottie and Kit. It doesn't help that everything Dottie tries to rectify the situation makes things ''worse'' (
* [[Spoiled Brat]]: Stillwell.
* [[Statuesque Stunner]]: Dottie is easily the tallest of the Peaches, and as many of the characters will attest, one of the prettiest.
* [[Stay in
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* [[Team Mom]]: Dottie.
* [[The Unfavourite]]: Kit views herself as this within her family.
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* [[Unnecessary Roughness]]: Kit does this {{spoiler|as part of an [[Indy Ploy]] to win her team the championship}}.
* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]/[[Did Not Do the Research]]: The real AAGPBL did not play regulation baseball, but rather a sort of baseball/softball hybrid. The ball was larger than a baseball (but smaller than a softball) and the bases were closer together (but still farther apart than a softball diamond). Also, while Racine did win the World Series, it was a five-game series, not seven.
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[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]
[[Category:Sports Stories]]
[[Category:A League
[[Category:National Film Registry]]
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