History YMMV / ALeagueOfTheirOwn

** Dottie [[spoiler:possibly throwing the final game, given that while it gives Kit a win, it also screws over the rest of the Peaches.]]

* ActorAllusion: Madonna is essentially playing a 1940s version of herself.

* HarsherInHindsight: Kit scores the winning run in the championship by knocking over Dottie who was blocking home plate. Twelve years after this movie, MLB instituted the controversial Posey Rule which prevents catchers from blocking the plate unless they possess the ball.

* HarsherInHindsight: Kit scores the winning run in the championship by knocking over Dottie who was blocking home plate. Twelve years later, MLB instituted the Posey Rule which prevents catchers from blocking the plate unless they possess the ball.

* RetroactiveRecognition: [[{{Monk}} Sharona Fleming]] learns there's no crying in baseball.

* TearJerker: [[spoiler: "I'm sorry, Betty."]]
** And Dottie in the scene immediately after. Having not heard from her husband in weeks, and that fresh in her mind, she breaks down fearing the worst. But then...
** The epilogue. [[spoiler:Dottie's husband Bob is dead, and so are Jimmy and Evelyn, who died before they could see the special exhibit.]]
--> '''Evelyn''': Stilwell, angel, smile...!

* BaseBreaker: Kit. Some people see her as a PassionateSportsGirl who overcame being OvershadowedByAwesome, others see her as a [[{{Wangst}} whiny]], bratty, hostile UngratefulBastard who didn't earn her place on the league and treated her sister with contempt even when Dottie did everything she could to make her happy.

-->'''Newsreel:''' And here's [Dottie's] kid sister, Kit, who's as single as they come! Enough concentrated oomph for a whole carload of Hollywood starlets.

* HollywoodHomely: Marla, who looks quite cute once she gets a makeover. Kit also, though she's the only person who seems to think this--the general opinion is that while not as beautiful as Dottie, she's still quite pretty.

** Dottie [[spoiler:throwing the final game, given that while it gives Kit a win, it also screws over the rest of the Peaches.]]

* ChewingTheScenery: It's a sign of Penny Marshall's underrated directorial skill that she not only gets great performances from Hanks, Davis and Petty, and from all the supporting characters, but even from Rosie O'Donnell and Music/{{Madonna}} -- but even Ms. Marshall couldn't stop Ms. Ciccone from going for the Best Supporting Actress statuette ''once'':
** "And what am I supposed to do, huh? Go back to taxi dancin'? Ten cents so some slob can sweat gin all over me? I'm never doin' that again! So you go back there and you tell ol' rich Mr. Old Chocolate Man that he ain't closing ME down!"

* TearJerker: [[spoiler: "I'm sorry, Betty"]]

* BaseBreaker: Kit. Some people see her as a PassionateSportsGirl who overcame being OverShadowedByAwesome, others see her as a [[{{Wangst}} whiny]], bratty, hostile UngratefulBastard who didn't earn her place on the league and treated her sister with contempt even when Dottie did everything she could to make her happy.

* BaseBreaker: Kit. Some people see her as a PassionateSportsGirl who overcame being OverShadowedByAwesome, others see her as a {{Wangst whiny}}, bratty, hostile UngratefulBastard who didn't earn her place on the league.

* {{Padding}}: A long, maudlin, entirely pointless epilogue with the elderly veterans of the AAGPBL forming for a reunion.

* BaseBreaker: Kit. Some people see her as a PassionateSportsGirl who overcame being OverShadowedByAwesome, others see her as a [[Wangst whiny]], bratty, hostile UngratefulBastard who didn't earn her place on the league.