Starts:

Saturday April 19, 2025

    7:00 PM

What is more reminiscent of April than Spring and baseball?

Starring Tom Hanks, Madonna, and Gina Davis, the film is based on the true story of how women saved baseball. During World War II, America’s favorite pastime was lying dormant–with the men gone—until the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) was created in 1943. A League of Their Own's true story inspiration was this particular era in the history of baseball. Three hundred women flooded the league tryouts in the spring of 1943 from all over the United States and Canada. Five years after its inception, the AAGPBL had grown to nearly one million fans. The real struggles of these female athletes served as the molds for the cast of A League of Their Own.

Although fictional, much of the plot is historically accurate. Women were recruited from farms and brought into the spotlight. Many had surprising talent. Even the injuries in the film were authentic. Players in the AAGPBL were required to wear skirts both off and, on the field, despite severe injuries called “strawberries” from sliding into bases. 

A League of Their Own did a great service to the true stories of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League by bringing many of the true elements of the league’s history into the public interest.