Daily Dialogue — May 22, 2016

Older Stilwell: Hi, Dottie. You remember? “You’re gonna lose!”
Older Dottie: Stillwell, angel! My goodness! Where’s your mom?
Older Stilwell: Mom died… a few years ago.
Older Dottie: Oh, I’m sorry. She was a real nice lady, and a damn fine ball player.
Older Stilwell: Yeah. When I heard about this, I… I felt I owed it to her to be here. She always said it was the best time she ever had in her entire life.

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

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Celebration.

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: The ending of the movie is wonderfully moving, the reunion of the women after all those years, a bittersweet celebration.