A League of Their Own is a film about the first season of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League and the struggles to keep women's baseball alive as men from the major league teams join the military fight during World War II. While the film doesn't use real names, director Penny Marshall aims for realism by using stories told by real women who were actually part of the original League. Tom Hanks plays Jimmy Dugan, a declining former baseball player hired to coach in the 1943 All-American Girls Baseball League. Jon Lovitz stars early in the film as a sarcastic scout who recruits DottieHinson, played by Geena Davis. Teammates Mae played by Madonna, Kit played by Lori Petty and Doris played by Rosie O'Donnell round out the cast of the Rockford Peaches. The story follows the girls as they take the team to the World Series in a time when the league might not make it past its first season. (www.imdb.com) At the beginning of the film, Walter Harvey, a candy bar magnate, hires Ira Lowenstein to find a solution for baseball to continue in America while most of the professional baseball players in the minor leagues and the greater the number of fighting wars abroad. The solution... a women's baseball league. Talent scouts are sent out to find the best players from around the country. One of the talent scouts, Ernie Capadino, finds two baseball players from a small farm in Oregon, Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller, who are sisters and main characters in the story. Ernie Capadino only offers Dottie a try for the next championship and not her sister Kit, as he thinks she is not good enough for the championship. Dottie initially refuses, but Kit desperately wants... ...middle of paper......ball League and players in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. (A League of Their Own) In fact, the National Baseball Hall of Fame recognized women with a permanent “Women in Baseball” exhibit in 1988, however, none of the players have been officially inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. (www.aagpbl .org) In conclusion, the movie “A League of Their Own” was based on real events of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League which ran from 1943 to 1954. The movie itself, however, was simply a version of a Hollywood story that follows the lives of two sisters, Dottie and Kit, who played for the Rockford Peaches during the league's first season in 1943. All the characters in the film were fictional and the names were changed, but the characters themselves actually resembled many real players in the All Americans Girls Professional Baseball League.