A League of Their Own



A League of Their Own is a 1992 film about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, formed in response to the lack of men available to play Major League Baseball during World War II. A line from the film, "There's no crying in baseball!" was rated 54th on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest film quotes of all time. In 2012, it was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Connections

 * Penny Marshall directed the film
 * Geena Davis played Dottie Hinson
 * Tom Hanks played Jimmy Dugan
 * Rosie O'Donnell played Doris Murphy
 * Madonna played Mae Mordabito
 * Jon Lovitz played Ernie Capadino
 * Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel wrote the screenplay, who also wrote the screenplay for the unproduced Jim Henson's Creature Shop-effects film adaptation of Into the Woods