"A League of Their Own" is indeed based on the true story. The reason they were playing Baseball was because World War II was going on at the time and many players were overseas as part of the military. The Major League product was suffering and the minor league product was devestated by those serving in the armed forces....
A League of Their OwnThe 1992 film was callled "A League of Their Own" The movie is based on the real life All American Girls Professional Baseball League.
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Foxx, one of the first players to hit 500 career home runs, managed the Fort Wayne Daisies of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1952. The Tom Hanks character in the 1990 movie "A League of Their Own" -- ("There's no crying in baseball!!!) -- was loosely based on Foxx.
The movie is loosely based on the Manson Murders, playing upon the idea of random violence, "just because".
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The Tom Hanks character in the movie A League of Their Own.
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The movie 'Invictus' was based on the book: Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation, by John Carlin
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