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10 Sports Movies Where the Main Characters Actually Lose
There's No Crying in This Movie! — 'A League of Their Own' (1992)
Penny Marshall's beloved comedy is about two competitive sisters who join the first professional all-female baseball team, trying to push it toward unlikely success.

A League of Their Own is timelessly entertaining, a celebration of teamwork and leadership based on an inspiring real-life story. Although the main characters lose at the World Series, the sense of community built and the lessons learned along the way really hold a lot more weight.

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10 '90s Comfort Movies To Watch If You're Having A Bad Day
From the delightful Matilda to the absurd shenanigans in Dumb and Dumber, here are ten ‘90s comfort movies to watch if you’re having a bad day.
A League of Their Own
A League of Their Own tells the story of the Rockford Peaches, a small team in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League that competes against larger teams with more resources. While the sports dramedy takes place in the 1940s, the cast boasts a collection of stellar nineties stars like Geena Davies, Tom Hanks, and Rosie O’Donnell. A League of Their Own ultimately celebrates women in a male-dominated area and serves as a reminder to pursue one’s dream despite what society dictates. If happiness comes from out of left field, A League of Their Own shows how to follow that happiness wherever it goes next.
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How Madonna Turned the League of Their Own Set Into a Three-Ring Circus
In this excerpt from the new book No Crying in Baseball, Erin Carlson reveals how the pop star’s hiring made an A-list actor drop out, how Madonna and Rosie O’Donnell became fast friends, and how a $10 tip stunned a Madonna-impersonating drag queen.
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The All-Time 15 Best Performances in Sports Movies
Geena Davis as Dottie Hinson - A League of Their Own (1992)
There are plenty of female-driven sports films out there and great roles within them. But ask yourself: do they top Geena Davis in A League of Their Own? Playing the role of farm girl Dottie Henson, who gets a shot to play in the women's professional baseball league during World War II. Hinson is played as a humble team player by Davis. The best of the best that never brags about it. She's a woman who would also give it all up to be with her husband when he gets back from the war. And she does, as she only plays one season before calling it quits.

Thus making her one of the best in the sport who knew to leave on top. The film is highly fictionalized and yet drawn from an actual event in America, but boy does it capture how life seemed to be in during World War II here in the States. The set design, the swinging 1940s music for the score, and Davis being an absolute star at this time helped launch this film into the stratosphere, where it still sits today.

Tom Hanks as Jimmy Dugan - A League of Their Own (1992)
Not to take a single thing away from Geena Davis, but Tom Hanks kind of steals this movie. It's the early 1990s, and Hanks is very much on the rise. It's hard to pinpoint where you can see what makes him a great dramatic actor, but there has to be a case that it's his role as the fictional baseball coach Jimmy Dugan in A League of Their Own. Hanks comedic talent is on full display here, with unforgettable lines like, "Did anyone ever tell you that you look like a penis with a hat on?" and the iconic rant of "There's no crying in baseball!"

His chemistry with his predominately all female-cast without there being some sort of romance involved makes the film so much more special. He fits into the world of old-time baseball. Like a player ripped right out of black-and-white footage of a game. It was after this film that Hank's career in more serious movies began to take off, and rightfully so.
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Join us for the return of a baseball classic to the super screen. As America’s stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey (Garry Marshall). Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis) and Kit Keller (Lori Petty) spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino (Jon Lovitz) and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) on their way to fame. Madonna and Rosie O’Donnell co-star as two of the sisters’ teammates.
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