Today Amazon Prime dropped an official trailer for the TV adaptation of the 1992 movie A League Of Their Own. Like the movie, the show will present a fictionalized take on the very real All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) that existed between 1943-1954 which was established to keep professional baseball in the public eye as many able bodied men went to the front lines to fight in World War II.
Based on Penny Marshall’s much-loved 1992 film which starred Geena Davis, Madonna, Rosie O’Donnell and Lori Petty, the series is inspired by real-life baseball team the Rockford Peaches who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940s. The trailer reveals the challenges faced by the players, including sexism and racism as they battle to be taken seriously on the field.
The series stars Chanté Adams, D’Arcy Carden, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Roberta Colindrez, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Kate Berlant, Kendall Johnson, Kelly McCormack, Alex Désert, Priscilla Delgado, Aaron Jennings, Molly Ephraim, Melanie Field and Dale Dickey.
Parks and Recreation and Making It star Nick Offerman warms the bench as the team’s coach, a washed-up baseball player. Offerman steps into a slightly different version of the role played by Tom Hanks’ in the original, memorably yelling from the dugout, “There’s no crying in baseball!”
A League of Their Own will stream on Prime Video Aug. 12.
