Baseball Girls

Baseball Girls (1995)

This feature documentary uses animation, archival stills and live-action footage to detail the history of women's participation in the largely male-dominated world of baseball and softball. Zany and affectionate, it features 7-year-olds learning the rules and skills of the game and 50-year-olds hitting home runs, from the early days of the Bloomer Girls to the heyday of the Colorado Silver Bullets.

Date of release
1995-09-23
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 21m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Lois Siegel

Casting

Interesting facts

Baseball Girls is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Lois Siegel and released in 1995. The film centres on women's baseball, profiling the history and culture of the sport from the days of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League through to the modern day, through a blend of animation, still photography and live action footage.

Production

Siegel began planning the film before the release of the 1992 film A League of Their Own, but stated that she was thankful that Penny Marshall's hit film had raised the profile of the subject. She also expressed her disappointment that Ken Burns's otherwise acclaimed 1994 documentary series Baseball had devoted very little time to women's role in the sport even though Burns had directly consulted Siegel for assistance in researching that aspect o…

Faye Dancer, who had been a player in the All-American Girls league, served as a creative consultant on the film.

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