A League Of Their Own: Movie Review

Elvin Jaimon

August 9, 2014

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The movie starts off in 1992 with Dottie Hinson going to the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame. There she sees many friends and team-mates. She gets a flashback to 1943. The MLB is closed. The Chicago Cubs owner decides to make a woman’s baseball team. The scout likes what he sees in Dottie, a girl from Oregon. He urges her to tryout but she is content in working at her farm while her husband is at the war. When her sister, Kit, insists on going Dottie decides to go if Kit can. On the way the scout watches a girl named Marla. She is really good but ugly. He wasn’t going to get her until Dottie and Kit said they weren’t

going without her. When they reach the stadium they tryout and practice. They all make it onto the Rockford Peaches. Jimmy Dugan a really good former Cubs player is their manager.

He is always drunk. At first he doesn’t really like the team and he cusses them out all the time. The league eventually gets pretty popular after Dottie and some other players do amazing things. Slowly Jimmy starts enjoying the job. He stops cussing and controls his temper much better. He also controls his alcohol intake. As the Peaches get better Dottie and Kit start fighting. Kit wants to play the whole game but Dottie takes her out. That starts up a big fight between them. Dottie suggests that she will go to another team but instead Kit gets traded to the Racine Belles. Kit is not happy about it at all. The next day before their game they get a telegram saying that somebodies husband dies. Dottie thinks it’s her husband but it is not. That evening her husband comes after being wounded from a battle in Italy. They decide that they will go back to Oregon the next morning. Jimmy is not happy about it saying that she would regret her decision. The Peaches and the Racine Belles both make it to the World Series. The Belles win the first 3 games. But with a comeback the Peaches win 3 games making the series tied 3-3. In the last game Dottie unexpectedly comes

back. The Belles score the first point from a mess up but Jimmy does not get mad. Then in the top of the 9th Peaches score 2 points from a hit by Dottie. Then in the Bottom of the 9th Kit is up to bat with a player on base. She hits a grand slam to win the game for the Belles. After the game Kit asks if Dottie is leaving and she admits she is because she wants to have a family. They have a playful shouting match and then it goes to present day.