The new eight-part A League of Their Own is far from a retread of the 1992 film starring Geena Davis, Madonna and Tom Hanks.
is a mere retread of the 1992 film of the same name, widely and rightly regarded as one of the all-time great sports movies. But for all its virtues, Penny Marshall’s comedic take on the real-life tale of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League that ran from 1943 to 1954 left something pretty major out of the picture – and this eight-parter sets the record straight, so to speak.focuses on one team: the Rockford Peaches. Unlike the film, it is very much a queer history.
Jacobson plays Carson Shaw, a married woman from small-town Idaho who runs away to join the four-team women’s league launched by candy manufacturer Morris Baker – a fictionalised version of Philip K. Wrigley – in a bid to keep his Chicago stadium busy while so many male players are away at war. It’s a time of massive upheaval, when factories are forced first to drop their no women rule, then their no blacks rule and finally their no black women rule.
For Max Chapman , the story’s second key character, that means a chance to play for the factory baseball team, just so long as she can convince the sexist coach to give her a trial. Oh, and to persuade her mother that there’s nothing wrong with her for wanting to play ball in the first place.In fact, that was one of the key challenges the league as a whole faced: how to persuade the fans there was nothing wrong with these women for wanting to play ball.
Of course, quite a few were. Acknowledging that fact, and what it meant to live as a lesbian or a gay man or, as in the case of Max’s Aunt Bertie , as a non-binary person, is what thisIt’s not as funny as the film, it doesn’t tug as readily at the heartstrings, and it occasionally allows its characters to speak of the injustices they face with way too modern a voice . But for the most part thisis on Amazon Prime Video from August 12.
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