‘A League of Their Own’ is ready to shine a spotlight on a generation’s untold stories.
that nods to all of the history that didn’t make it onscreen. Recovering a foul ball from the first base line, a Black woman seated in a segregated section returns it to the Rockford Peaches with a throw so powerful it hurts the catcher’s hand. The woman isn’t named and has no lines; in a film set years before Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color line, there are no significant roles for people of color at all.
Maxine is unmarried, and a bit adrift now that her best friend Clance is a newlywed; Carson’s husband of seven years, Charlie , is off at war. But it becomes clear as the series continues that neither Maxine or Carson is cut out for the type of traditional marriage expected of women in the 1940s. “Queer people didn’t just come out of the blue at Stonewall,” says Jacobson, who, like Graham, identifies as queer.
“There were between eight and nine hundred women who played in the AAGPBL. There were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds more who either weren’t allowed to play or played on industrial teams or weren’t in the right cities. There was just such a wealth of characters,” Graham says. Before Marshall’s death in 2018, Jacobson and Graham met with her to get her blessing for their adaptation. They say she specifically mentioned the scene of the Black woman returning the foul ball as a nod to history she was eager to include. It was partly because of their reverence for the original film that Jacobson and Graham didn’t want to reprise any of the familiar characters—but they’re also aware that there are just so many more stories to tell.
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