A League Of Their Own (2022)

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🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The professional women's baseball team the Rockford Peaches were immortalized in the 1992 box office hit A League Of Their Own. Thirty years later, they're back in a new Amazon Prime series of the same name. Co-created by and starring Broad City alum Abbi Jacobson, the series showcases a new set of fictionalized characters, played by Chanté Adams, D'Arcy Carden, and more. While exploring queer themes and racial segregation, the show is a fresh take that both pays homage and stands on its own.

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0:00.0	In 1992, the professional women's baseball team, the Rockford Peaches, was immortalized
0:10.1	in the box office hit, A League of Their Own.
0:12.9	30 years later, they're back in a new Amazon series of the same name co-created by and
0:17.9	starring, Broad City alum Abby Jacobson.
0:21.8	This time around, crying in baseball is the least of their worries.
0:25.4	The show explores queer themes, racial segregation via a different set of fictionalized characters.
0:31.2	It's a fresh take that both pays homage and stands on its own.
0:35.3	I'm Linda Holmes and we're talking about the new series, A League of Their Own, on
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