There’s (still) no crying in baseball. The Rockford Peaches will be revisited in Amazon’s upcoming A League of Their Own TV series — and fans of the classic film can officially look forward to seeing at least one familiar face.
Based on the 1992 film with the same name. Abbi Jacobson Will GrahamCo-created the TV reboot.
“Twenty-eight years ago, Penny Marshall told us a story about women playing professional baseball that up until then had been largely overlooked,” Graham and Jacobson said in a statement in August 2020. “We grew up obsessed with the film, like everyone else. Three years ago we approached Sony with the idea to tell a new and untold story. We are extremely grateful to have the opportunity to bring these characters to life with the support of an incredible team of collaborators, a cast of talented actors, and the dedicated support of Amazon. These players were able to achieve their dreams only because they had grit and fire, authenticity, wild imagination, and a sense of humor. We’re hoping to bring audiences a story with all of those qualities.”
A League of Their Own, which is a fictional story based on the real women’s baseball league that started during World War II, starred Geena, Lori Petty, Madonna, Rosie O’Donnell Tom Hanks. As production on the show began in July 2021, O’Donnell revealed she is set to make an appearance.
“I’m playing a bartender in one of the scenes at the local gay bar,” the comedian dished on the “Everything Iconic With Danny Pellegrino” podcast. “I had a great experience on A League of Their Own. I love the Broad CityI was told that women are more likely to be women than men. [Abbi] was doing League, she called me up and said, ‘Ro, would you do it?’ And I said, ‘In a minute.’ … Then she sent me the pilot that she did and it was just really beautiful.”
O’Donnell played Doris Murphy in the ‘90s film. “It’s funny, duringA League of Our Own my character again, I think was gay,” she explained. “And when she had that speech — ‘I never really felt like a real girl. I always felt like a fake girl, not even a girl, but now there’s a lot of us and I feel like we’re all OK’ — I did that in the bus and [director] Penny Marshall goes, ‘Rosie, do it again. It’s not a gay thing.’”
However, the actress refused to believe it. “I said, ‘Pen, did you read the words?’ The words are totally that she finally feels she fits in amongst this group of tomboys. There’s this little bit of an undertone,” O’Donnell recalled. “She said, ‘No, it’s not gay anything. Don’t make it a gay anything.’ I played it the way I played it. But again, to me, that was a gay character.”
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