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This Movie Changed Me

A League of Their Own — Jessica Mendoza

This Movie Changed Me

On Being Studios

Tv & Film, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6589 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

A League of Their Own is a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, formed during World War II. Geena Davis and Lori Petty play the competitive Hinson sisters, who are recruited to join the Rockford Peaches and play in the league. Since its release in 1992, the movie has inspired many young female athletes, including baseball commentator Jessica Mendoza. She grew up playing softball with her sister and went on to compete at the Olympics — including winning gold and silver. Jessica says one of the movie’s famous lines — “It’s the hard that makes it great” — inspired her to break records on the field and off.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, fellow movie friends. I'm Lily Percy, and I'll be your guide this week as I talk with Olympic softball player and sports broadcaster Jessica Mendoza about the movie that changed her, a league of their own.

0:12.0

Don't worry if you haven't seen it. We're going to give you all the details to follow along.

0:16.6

Careers in higher education are leading to the masculinization of women with enormously dangerous consequences to the home, the children, and our country.

0:28.4

When our boys come home from war, what kind of girls will they be coming home to?

0:34.0

And now the most disgusting example of this sexual confusion, Mr. Walter Harvey of Harvey bars,

0:42.3

is presenting us with women's baseball.

0:46.3

Mr. Harvey, like your candy bars, you're completely nuts.

0:51.3

A league of their own tells a fictionalized version of a real- life story, something that I never learned until I saw the movie.

0:58.3

Which is that for a brief time in history, women were playing in their own professional baseball league during World War II,

1:05.0

when all the men and a lot of baseball players were off fighting in the war.

1:09.7

On the home front, they find them everywhere, north, east, south, and west, and even Canada.

1:17.6

Players for the new All-American girls' baseball league.

1:21.6

After the first month of league play, the shine still isn't off these diamond gals.

1:29.5

The movie focuses on a specific team, the Rockford Peaches, and all the women who make

1:34.2

up that team, which includes two sisters, Doddy and Kit, who love each other deeply,

1:39.2

but are also extremely competitive.

1:42.5

That last pitch was right down the middle. If I just wanted that, I'd be the big hero.

1:47.0

She got me so crazy.

1:49.0

All I said was lay off behind ones.

1:51.0

Good thing your sister bailed you out, Kit.

1:53.0

Ha, ha, ha.

1:55.0

Kit, why don't you get your sister to teach you how to hit?

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