Title from set container. Feature production credits: Columbia Pictures presents a Parkway Production ; screenplay by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel ; produced by Robert Greenhut, Elliot Abbott ; directed by Penny Marshall. Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna, Lori Petty, Jon Lovitz, David Strathairn, Garry Marshall, Bill Pullman. Based on a story by Kim Wilson and Kelly Candaele. Documentary production credits: K & K Productions ; a co-production with KCET television ; producers, Kim Wilson & Kelly Candaele ; director and screenwriter, Mary Wallace. Feature originally released as a motion picture in 1992 ; documentary originally released in 1986 by Filmakers Library.
Summary:
A washed-up ballplayer is hired to coach in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League while the male pros are at war in 1943, and finds himself drawn back into the game by the heart and heroics of his team. The documentary recounts the history of the actual league.
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