This is Diana Nyad for KCRW, and this is The Score.
A League of Their Own was the popular 1992 Penny Marshall movie, basically a comedy, based on the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. While the history of the league was portrayed at least somewhat accurately via the film's storyline and a few of the characters came through with at least a semblance of similarity to the real people, one thing that the movie lacked was a recreation of the extraordinary athleticism of those women ball players. There were scenes of their having to go to charm school to learn ladylike posture by walking with books balanced on their heads. They had to sign an agreement never to appear in public without lipstick. And those scenes were authentic. But the power of their bats, their hard-hitting slides into third base, their incredible throws from center field into home were not even hinted at.
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