It’s particularly fitting, as the final scenes in “A League of Their Own” were filmed on-site at the Hall of Fame with the characters attending … a special exhibit dedicated to women in baseball. The film, which features a starting lineup of Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Madonna and Lori Petty, depicted the short run of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), where women played professional baseball as a ‘replacement’ for the many Major League Baseball players who had gone to fight in World War II.
In conjunction with the July 1 anniversary, the Hall of Fame is planning talks, exhibits, a film screening and more as part of its homage to the beloved movie. It’s all thanks to the 25th anniversary of “A League of Their Own,” the iconic movie that passed the Bechdel Test with flying colors before the Bechdel Test even existed. The National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, is swinging for the fences by programming a series of events around “Diamond Dreams,” the museum’s permanent exhibit dedicated to women in baseball.