A League of Their Own

“Once in a lifetime you get a chance to do something different.”

Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis) is a catcher so good that a scout shows up at her family's farm, and she is the one who has to talk her younger sister Kit (Lori Petty) into trying out too. World War II has emptied the ball fields of men, so a candy maker starts a professional league for women in the Midwest. Penny Marshall puts the sisters' rivalry in the dirt and the dugout, next to Tom Hanks as Jimmy Dugan, a washed-up coach who would rather be sleeping.