‘A League of Their Own’ series proves there is crying in baseball
washingtonblade.comGuess what? There is crying in baseball. “A League of Their Own,” an entertaining, queered-up eight-episode series adaptation of the 1992 movie (of the same name) has dropped on Amazon Prime.
Like the movie, the series is the story of what life was like in 1943 for the players of the Rockford Peaches, one of the 10 teams that made up the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL).
Women got to play because many of the male major leaguers were away fighting World War II. As in the film, the characters in the reboot are fictional, but the Rockford Peaches and the league were real.
From 1943 to 1954, more than 600 women played for the AAGPBL. The 1992 film was loved by many. But back then, mainstream movies didn’t have much of a queer quotient, and racial injustice was, largely, off the radar.
