No Crying In Baseball - Author Erin Carlson shares "A League of Their Own" stories

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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