Abbey Reels: A League of Their Own (1992)
Sat, Aug 08
|Ottawa Center: The Abbey
A look at the first women's professional baseball league is set during World War II and focuses on the rivalry between sisters, one a sweet-swinging catcher and the other a pouty, impulsive pitcher, who play on the same team. Admission: $5 Show starts @7:00PM (Doors open @6:30)
Time & Location
Aug 08, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CDT
Ottawa Center: The Abbey, 113 E Lafayette St, Ottawa, IL 61350, USA
About the event
A look at the first women's professional baseball league is set during World War II and focuses on the rivalry between sisters, one a sweet-swinging catcher and the other a pouty, impulsive pitcher, who play on the same team, which is managed by a washed-up, hard-drinking ex-Major Leaguer.
There will be a presentation about the Rockford Peaches prior to the screening!
"The movie has a real bittersweet charm. The baseball sequences, we’ve seen before. What’s fresh are the personalities of the players, the gradual unfolding of their coach and the way this early chapter of women’s liberation fit into the hidebound traditions of professional baseball. By the end, when the women get together again for their reunion, it’s touching, the way they have to admit that, whaddaya know, they really were pioneers." - Roger Ebert
