A League of Their Own

     In the movie, A League of Their Own, World War 2 is threatening to ruin America's favorite past time, baseball.  With all of the men overseas fighting, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League starts up to save the sport of baseball.  They recruit women from all over the U.S. and... let the games begin!  This real life historical event started out in CHicago because the Cubs manager wanted to make money even when the men were away at war.  The AAGPBL ran from 1943 to 1954.  The movie takes place in 1948 when the Rockford Peaches win the World Series.
     This movie is uplifting and inspiring to women like myself because it shows that even a manly sport like baseball can be played and  successfully held up by women in a professional setting.  The women in this time period were sassy and demanding, they knew what they wanted and fought for it.  This is about 20 years after women earned the right to vote so the fight they won was still fresh in their memories.  I feel like women nowadays have no recollection of the adversity we overcame to have the rights we have today.  Obviously, I believe we never should have had to earn the right to vote or be treated as equals, but since we did, we should never take it for granted.
      Our grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for our futures when they refused to live in a man's world.  The women in the AAGPBL remembered this and when their husbands, fathers and brothers went into the war they paid their country back by playing in this baseball league.  Even learning about the Women's Rights Movement isn't enough for kids to realize the full extent of what women went through to have the rights we have today.  Even I can't fully understand it because I've never lived in a world where women didn't have the same rights as everyone else.