OK, we’ll allow a little bit of crying in baseball. Just this once.
1992’s A League of Their Own told a fictionalized account of a real all-women baseball league. The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) was founded in 1943 when America’s involvement in World War II meant that male professional baseball players were drafted or volunteered to serve in the war effort. The film starred Geena Davis, Madonna, Rosie O’Donnell, and Lori Petty as baseball players, and Tom Hanks as their reluctant manager. In 2012, the Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry.
In addition to Jacobson, the cast of A League of Their Own will be made up of Chanté Adams, D’Arcy Carden, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Kelly McCormack, Roberta Colindrez, and Priscilla Delgado. Molly Ephraim, Kate Berlant, and Melanie Field are set to recur.
No release date has been announced yet for A League of Their Own but fingers-crossed it arrives in time for a (full) baseball season.
