ABSTRACT
A League of Their Own, a Columbia Pictures film directed by Penny Marshall, was released in 1992 to coincide with the opening of the major league baseball season. The film chronicles the 1943 inaugural season of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, a womens professional baseball league, conceived by Philip K. Wrigley, the chewing-gum magnate and owner of the Chicago Cubs. Concerned that World War II might devastate major league baseball, Wrigley proposed to keep the entertainment value of baseball alive by financing womens teams in four small Midwestern cities: Kenosha and Racine, Wisconsin; Rockford, Illinois; and South Bend, Indiana.
