League of Their Own trivia

‘A League of Their Own’ trivia inspired by my Halloween costume

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“I’m a Peach! A Rockford Peach! I made it! I can stay!”

After years of thinking of it but never pulling the trigger, I’m finally going as a Rockford Peach for Halloween. My uniform has the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League patch and everything. So of course, it’s time for “A League of Their Own” trivia!

“A League of Their Own” is one of my all-time favorite movies. For the record: Dottie dropped the ball on purpose, and Kit is the WORST.

Apparently, they’re rebooting it as a TV show? I’m down for anything with D’Arcy Carden, who has a perfect “League of Their Own” face.

But remember: Just like baseball, there’s no crying in “League of Their Own” trivia.

Questions:

  1. In the movie, one of the league owners is chocolate magnate Walter Harvey, played by director Penny Marshall’s brother Garry Marshall, as an analog for what real AAGPBL owner?
  2. The film follows the exploits of the girls who get selected for the Rockford Peaches. What are the other three teams that started the league in 1943?
  3. Which member of the Peaches writes a song for her teammates (which is actually the league’s real theme song) that gets a reprise at the Baseball Hall of Fame at the end of the movie?
  4. How do the girls get away from their chaperone, Miss Cuthbert, for a night of fun?
  5. What’s the name of the roadhouse where the girls have a rowdy night of drinking and dancing and Marla meets her future husband, Nelson?
  6. What does the beauty and etiquette expert suggest when she gets to Marla in the line?
  7. When Jimmy Dugan bursts into the clubhouse for the first game and drunkenly stumbles to the sink to take an extraordinarily long pee, what suggestion does Doris make to Mae?
  8. Dottie does the splits in order to impress the photographers from what magazine?
  9. What job did Mae have before she got recruited into the league?
  10. What softball team do Dottie and Kit play for when they get recruited by Ernie Capadino?

Answers up after the video for “This Used To Be My Playground,” the Madonna song from the soundtrack, which still can get me weepy.

Answers:

  1. Philip K. Wrigley
  2. Racine Belles, Kenosha Comets, South Bend Blue Sox
  3. Evelyn Gardner
  4. Mae poisons her dinner
  5. The Suds Bucket
  6. “A lot of night games”
  7. “Time him at least”
  8. Life magazine
  9. Taxi dancing
  10. Lukash Dairy

More spooky-themed trivia: Name that show: Sitcom Halloween episodes edition