Daily Dialogue — April 5, 2014

“Uh, Lord, hallowed be Thy name. May our feet be swift; may our bats be mighty; may our balls… be plentiful. Lord, I’d just like to thank You for that waitress in South Bend. You know who she is — she kept calling Your name. And God, these are good girls, and they work hard. Just help them see it all the way through. Okay, that’s it.”

— A League of Their Own (1992), screenplay by Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel, story by Kim Wilson & Kelly Candaele

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is prayer. Today’s suggestion by JasperLamarCrab.

Trivia: The film portrays the league as initially unpopular and unprofitable, until demeaning gimmicks are used to attract male audiences. In reality, the league was popular and profitable from the start, largely because it played in towns in the upper Midwest that had no way of watching a live baseball game. Eventually, the league grew into a ten-team two-division league. The advent of televised baseball games in the early fifties, however, would lead to the demise in the popularity of the league.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Jasper: “The carnal elements of this prayer are in keeping with Jimmy Dugan’s character and keep it from being corny.”

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