The Rockford Peaches collectively once more? Nicely, some would name {that a} house run.
The celebs of the 1992 movie “A League of Their Own,” together with Geena Davis, Lori Petty and Rosie O’Donnell, had a mini reunion at Chicago’s Donald Stephens Conference Middle for the Chicago Sports activities Spectacular on Sunday.
The trio spent the day signing memorabilia and snapping images with followers of the film.
The beloved Penny Marshall-directed sports activities comedy adopted the true story of the All-American Women Skilled Baseball League. Davis, 68, and Petty, 61, performed sisters Dottie Hinson and Equipment Keller, respectively, within the challenge whereas O’Donnell, 62, starred in a supporting function as third basewoman Doris Murphy.
Additionally on the occasion had been: Bitty Schram (proper fielder Evelyn Gardner), Megan Cavanagh (second basewoman Marla Hooch), Tracy Reiner (left fielder Betty “Spaghetti” Horn), Anne Ramsay (first basewoman Helen Haley), Freddie Simpson (shortstop Ellen Sue Gotlander), Patti Pelton (second basewoman Marbleann Wilkinson), Connie Kilos-Taylor (outfielder Connie Calhoun) and Kelli Simpkins (outfielder Beverly Dixon).
Lacking from the day? Tom Hanks, who starred because the Peaches coach and down-on-his-luck former Cubs participant Jimmy Dugan, and Madonna, who was taxi dancer-turned-center fielder “All the Way” Mae Mordabito.
Ellie Weingardt, who appeared because the allure college teacher, posed alongside the solid as properly.
O’Donnell shared a snap of the crew by way of Instagram on Monday with herself, Davis and Petty smiling within the middle of the group.
“The rockford peaches 2024 #leagueoftheirown,” the actress captioned the image, alongside a peach emoji.
One person wrote within the feedback, “I’m not crying – you’re crying! Wait – there’s no crying in baseball!” A second chimed in: “That’s so great! This was one of my favorite movies as a kid. Our family knew all the best lines. So good to see you all together.”
A 3rd moviegoer gushed: “Now I am sitting at my desk and work with big ol’ tears in my eyes.”
In 2022, an adaptation of the movie of the identical title, premiered within the type of a Prime Video comedy-drama. Abbi Jacobson’s “A League of Their Own” model, nevertheless, was canceled after one season because of the size of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
After months of negotiations, the collection obtained an order for an abbreviated four-episode second and ultimate season. however ended up being axed completely.
That very same 12 months, the unique solid celebrated the challenge’s thirtieth anniversary, with Davis reflecting on her work.
“Every one of them would ask, ‘Is this a feminist movie?’,” Davis recalled to Vogue of how journalists handled the film. “Kind of an, ‘Ooh, I’m actually saying the word feminist, this is so risqué to ask this.’ And I would say, ‘Yeah, yeah. Obviously.’ And they’d be like: ‘What? It’s okay to print that?’”
The opposite query each one in every of them requested: ‘So… a lot of women on the set, must be a lot of cat fighting?’, with that gleeful demeanor,” the star admitted. “I would say: ‘No, no. There’s none. We’re a team, we support each other.’”
One factor can’t be argued: “A League of Their Own” made historical past.
“[It was] a phenomenon,” Davis mentioned. “I don’t think there’d been a movie with that many female characters — especially being athletic and successful. So it did strike me as very strange,” mentioned Davis, who was supplied the a part of Dottie after taking part in ball in a miniskirt and excessive heels at director Penny Marshall’s house.
“Actually, Susan Sarandon pointed that out to me, when we did ‘Thelma & Louise,’ that it was very unusual for there to be a movie where the women aren’t against each other.”
However the “Thelma & Louise” alum was nonetheless disheartened by the way in which some critics seen ladies in movie.
“It was very interesting to learn that… having a successful movie with women in it didn’t change any opinion about women’s movies in Hollywood,” Davis added. “They were still all of the mind that women will watch movies about men, but men won’t watch movies about women.”
