Erin Carlson spins Baseball Women stories from the movie of "A League of Their Own". How Penny Marshall earned the respect of the AAGPBL, Stories of the All-American Players

• Tomboy & Director Penny Marshall moves from dancer to performing arts to Laverne & Shirley
• Transition from Laverne to director
• From BIG to Baseball
• Tom Hanks interprets Penny’s Bronx to the cast
• Baseball Drill for 6 weeks with coaches in LA
• Actresses who brought Athletic Talent to the field – Rosie O’Donnel, Lori Petty & Freddie Simpson
• All The Way Mae - Madonna could not hit, throw but was trainable per Joe Russo
• Debra Winger, originally cast as Dottie, leaves the team with $3 million
• Enter Geena Davis – untapped athletic ability & a steely game face
• 14:4 – Loop?
• Lori Petty & Kit brings it to the field but was concerned when Winger left
• Lori Petty & Geena Davis chemistry was strong on
• AAGPBL story is resurrected through the son of Helen Callaghan Candaele , the Ted Williams of Baseball
• Cooperstown 1988 - The players were suspicious of what others may do with their story
• Penny Marshall was kicked out of a AAGPBL banquet
• Fortuitous Steakhouse dinner with AAGPBL players, Fort Wayne Daisies, Faye Dancer & Pepper Paire Davis
• Mandel & Ganz – 2 great writers selected for the film
• Giant Rolodex, Birthday parties with Carrie Fisher and “Bobby D” De Niro
• Marge & Helen – sisters from Vancouver leave the factories behind in 1944 and joined the Minneapolis Millerettes, later with the Daisies– template for Dottie and Kit
• Helen was the “Ted Williams of Women’s Baseball”  Marge had to struggle to keep up with Helen
• Kelly Candaele’s documentary on mother Helen & Aunt Marge
• Penny Marshall & David Anspaugh
• Casting, location selection & costume design put together by David Anspaugh
• Anspaugh, Hoosiers director, had a different sense of funny
• Studio replaces Anspaugh – heartbroken he had been a fan of the Fort Worth Daisies as a young man.
• Jimmie Foxx – Lois Youngens & other AAGPBL players had a different view of him than Tom Hanks portrayal of Jimmie Doogan.
• Marshall honored AAGPBL wishes to stop a Doogan & Dottie intimacy scene
• Geena Davis leveling the playing field with Institute on Gender Media https://seejane.org/
• Davis found her athletic muscle playing Dottie
• “A Little League of Their Own”
• Penny Marshall - plan to develop a biopic on Effa Manley
• Health issues kept Penny from doing more
• Whatever happened to the “Pitch” series
• Who would you cast today in A League of Their Own today
• Gal Gadot as Dottie – the new Geena Davis
• Taylor Swift as Kit or Dottie – Travis Kelcie as an extra

Erin Carlson’s book – No Crying in Baseball click here can be found on Amazon

American Women’s Baseball Classic – members of the original AAGPBL teams will be there along with 60 of the top female baseball players in the world.

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