A League of Their Own Author:Sarah Gilbert (Adaptation) Novelization by Sarah Gilbert. Based on the screenplay by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. "It's the early 1940s and most of the important major league baseball players have enlisted to fight in the war. Baseball is dead. But businessman Walter Harvey is inspired to recruit women ball players for an all-American girls' baseball league. Thus the R... more »ockford Peaches are born. Coached by a former all-star who can't keep off the booze, required to attend charm school and jeered by hostile crowds, the Rockford Peaches are highly unlikely candidates for the Baseball Hall of Fame. From All-the-Way Mae, the sassy, street smart ballplayer who could catch anything including men, to sisters Dottie and Kit, fresh off the farm, the team proves that a woman's place is at home, first, second, and third. A League of Their Own is an out-and-out delight."« less