BENTONVILLE, AR - MAY 07: Baseball players Maybelle Blair, Suzanne Parsons and Gina Chirpie Casey attend "A League of Their Own" 25th Anniversary Game at the 3rd Annual Bentonville Film Festival on May 7, 2017 in Bentonville, Arkansas. (Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Bentonville Film Festival)
MCB’s Replay Review discusses “A League of Their Own”
During the Second World War, with many of the country’s young men overseas—including its professional athletes—women were asked to step up and join the war efforts. American Women, many of them housewives and mothers, were asked to take on jobs at factories, plants, shipyards, and… on the baseball diamond.