Talk:A League of Their Own

Inspiration for Jimmy Dugan

There are two proposed candidates, Jimmie Foxx and Hack Wilson. After reading both their biographies, I find the former more likely, since he actually coached an AAGPBL team. The only resemblance to Wilson was that both were alcoholics, hardly unique. Clarityfiend 01:38, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Removed odd trivia

Took out "*Mae Mordabito is the great aunt of Gregg "Opie" Hughes of the Opie and Anthony Show, heard weekday mornings on XM Satellite Radio and dozens of terrestrial radio stations." What does this mean? Hughes is the grandnephew of a fictional character? Or his great aunt happens to have the same name as Madonna's character? Who cares? Clarityfiend 13:57, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

--I think they're referring to the fact that Opie claims to be related to the woman that the character of Mae is based on. While his great-aunt MAY have been a baseball player, there's no definitive proof that she is the inspiration for Mae.

And apparently people do care, if the information was added. Although I disagree with your attitude, I do agree that, without proper confirmation, that "fact" should be removed. -- HMK

Plot summary

The plot summary is around 650 words, which I think is about the right length for a feature film, play or novel. I've removed the {{plot}} tag. --Tony Sidaway 00:42, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Why doesn't League of Their Own redirect here?

I just saw the movie on TV and wanted to read more about it on Wikipedia. Like many people, I just type in the main part of the title (not remembering that there is an "A" in the beginning) and I get sent to some obscure nude rugby calender. Come on people, the movie is internationally known and dwarfs an obscure rugby calender when it comes to primary topic. So many wikipedia articles have redirects for the main title without the articles "A" or "The", etc. This is a no brainer and it is silly for readers like me to get sent to the completely wrong topic on wikipedia when searching for a VERY well known subject. 72.21.196.66 (talk) 05:16, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Well, the calendar does have that title. The best solution I can think of is to add a hatnote (which I have done). Clarityfiend (talk) 06:16, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

[grin] That really is funny. I agree, the hatnote is suitable. Erik (talk) 13:54, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Fitzgerald's in Berwyn

In the document, there is a link to learn more about Fitzgeralds. However the link goes to an establishment in Houston, not Berwyn. Since it is wrong, I am removing it — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.228.30.234 (talk) 03:36, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Unsourced Material

Tagged for needing sources since August 2011. The only citation provided was IMDb, which isn't reliable. Please feel free to reincorporate into the article with proper references. Doniago (talk) 14:09, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Production

==Production== League Stadium, located in Huntingburg, Indiana, served as the home field for the Rockford Peaches. Many other game scenes were filmed at Bosse Field in Evansville, Indiana, the United States' third oldest ball park and oldest minor league ball park; it served as the home of the Racine Belles. The scenes that take place in fictional Harvey Field were shot at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois. As with his film counterpart, Chicago Cubs owner P.K. Wrigley was the original sponsor of the real-life league. Other scenes for the movie were filmed around Chicago, including Walter Harvey's invitation to Jimmy Dugan to manage the Peaches, which was filmed at Cantigny Park in Wheaton, Illinois. The mansion in the scene formerly belonged to Robert McCormick, editor of the Chicago Tribune. The Soaper-Esser house (built 1884–87) in which the women lived is located at 612 North Main Street in Henderson, Kentucky, and is on the historic register. The roadhouse scenes were filmed at the Hornville Tavern in Evansville, Indiana, and Fitzgerald's in Berwyn, Illinois. All scenes on the train and at the stations were filmed at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois. The Nebraska Zephyr, now part of the museum's collection, was prominently featured. Madonna ("This Used to Be My Playground") and Carole King ("Now and Forever") contributed songs to the film, however Madonna's song wasn't included as part of the official soundtrack. The video for the former was featured on the DVD. For the scenes set in 1992, rather than use make-up and prosthetics on the principal actors to make them look older, all the parts shown were recast with older actors who resembled the principal cast. The closing credits are shown over a baseball game between women who had actually played in the AAGPBL.

Added Dottie's Real Name

Note character is based on real baseball player Dorothy "Dottie" Kamenshek.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/21/AR2010052104773.html

Also, when they post the Rockford Peaches' roster (directly after tryouts), Dottie's full name "Dorthey Hinson" is revealed. Note, I added traditional spelling of Dorothy and assumed the baseball league made a mistake in spelling her name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.33.55.76 (talk) 00:06, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Only 'error' about putting in a "traditional spelling [because assuming] the baseball league made a mistake" is - - - what spelling was used in the film's credits? That's what character names must be based on, the actual film. 2600:8800:785:2A00:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 03:11, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Cast in plot section

@Doniago: WP:FILMPLOT says no such thing to my knowledge, and I was simply reverting a recent change. Daß Wölf 19:06, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Including the cast took the plot over the 700-word guideline, and it's been established that including the cast in the plot is typically unnecessary and potentially undesirable if there's a separate Cast section. You're welcome to trim the plot down to the point that including the cast doesn't push the plot past 700 words, from my perspective. DonIago (talk) 20:17, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

I've done so. I think the cast in plot is quite useful here, considering there are many characters to keep track of. Daß Wölf 18:38, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

That's what the cast section is for. Putting the same names in the plot is just pointless duplication to no good purpose. ---The Old Jacobite_{The '45} 12:17, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

Any resemblance to real persons …

… candy magnate and Cubs owner Walter Harvey …

Are the Cubs mentioned by name? Harvey (chocolate) obviously represents a member of the Wrigley (gum) family; it would be strange to rename him and not his team. —Tamfang (talk) 17:51, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

AAGPBL

It wasn't mentioned either way as to whether or not any AAGPBL players were in the film; especially in the opening and closing framing scenes.

Were any ?

Just curious. 2600:8800:785:2A00:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 03:14, 30 November 2020 (UTC)