Funny / A League of Their Own

• As cruel as he's being to Evelyn, Jimmy's meltdown is funny, especially because he's so triggered by a woman crying.
  Jimmy: Are you crying? Are you crying? ARE YOU CRYING? There's no crying! THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!
  Doris: Why don't you leave her alone, Jimmy?
  Jimmy: Why don't you zip it, Doris? [to Evelyn] Rogers Hornsby was my manager, and he called me a talking pile of pigshit, and that was when my parents drove all the way down from Michigan to see me play the game. And did I cry?
  Evelyn: No, no, no.
  Jimmy: Yeah! NO. And do you know why?!
  Evelyn: No...
  Jimmy: Because there's no crying in baseball! THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL! No crying!
• Then the umpire tries to intervene on Evelyn's behalf, and Jimmy doesn't take that well, either, getting himself ejected.
  Umpire: Good rule of thumb: Treat each of these girls like you would treat your mother.
  Jimmy: Did anyone ever tell you, you look like a penis with a little hat on?
  • And after the umpire gets rightfully upset with him, Jimmy tries to claim that he "misunderstood" him. His team even delights in his ejection and wave him off into the dugout. Also Jimmy can't believe no one has ever told the umpire that before.
• Jimmy's first moment as a manager: drunkenly taking a long, long, long piss — so long Mae and Doris get out a stopwatch.
  Doris: (whispering) He still ain't done!
• "Nice piece of coaching, Jimmy! I especially liked that move in the 5th inning, where you scratched your balls for an hour."
  Jimmy: Anything worth doing is worth doing right.
• Moments later, after Jimmy spits a clump of chewing tobacco onto Lowenstein's shoe:
  Ira: If we paid you a little bit more, Jimmy, do you think you could be just a little more disgusting?
  Jimmy: Well, I could certainly use the money.
• The Running Gags about Marla's appearance. It seems a bit cruel, but her happy ending with Nelson makes up for it.
• Jimmy's prayer, including thanking God for a waitress in South Bend he implicitly had sex with. Evelyn's Eye Take when he starts talking about that sells it.
  Jimmy: You know who she is. She kept shouting your name.
• Jimmy visibly trying to hold back his anger while lecturing Evelyn after she once again botches a throw to the cutoff man.
• Although it dips a little into Comedic Sociopathy, Mae poisoning Miss Cuthbert's dinner so that the girls can have a night on the town:
  Doctor: I have to say in all my years of medical practice, I've never seen a woman throw up that much.
  Jimmy: Maybe it's how she entertains herself, Doc.
• Jimmy autographing a little kid's baseball. "Avoid the clap. Jimmy Dugan."^note Jimmy: (calling after them) That's good advice!
• Jimmy and Dottie going back and forth giving Marla batting signals.
• Jimmy has a lot of these. "YOU ZIP IT DORIS!"
• The entire scene at the charm school:
  • Instead of moving gracefully in the first part, Marla's arm is stock straight and moves very fast,
  • During the same scene, Mae is staring at Mr. Lowenstein the entire time with a sexy look, with him clearly uncomfortable at the flirting.
  • During the tea drinking scene, instead of drinking the tea, Doris is stuffing her face with the tea cookies and ignoring Kit telling her to stop.
  • "Legs always together. A lady reveals nothing." Kit cracking up at that line (and Dottie admonishing her) is actually Lori Petty corpsing and Geena Davis upset at the messed-up take.
  • The beauty school teacher's suggestion for Marla? "A lot of night games."
• "You're gonna lo-ose! You're gonna lo-ose!"
  • After he gets Dottie back, Jimmy nails Stilwell in the face with a glove, and shows nothing but joy about it. "BAHAHAHAHA! GOT HIM!"
  • Plus Evelyn's completely unfazed reaction, indicating that she sides with Jimmy and is herself finally fed up with Stillwell's brattiness.
• Earlier in the film:
  Mae: I'm sorry, Evelyn, but I'm going to have to kill your son!
  Doris: No, Mae! Don't use my bat! (Beat) Use Marla's bat! It's heavier!
• Jimmy drunkenly making out with Miss Cuthbert when she attempts to wake him up, and then his reaction afterwards.
  Jimmy: By the way, I loved you in The Wizard of Oz.
  • Making it even funnier, Jimmy is essentially calling her a Witch with a Capital "B".
• At the end of the Creative Closing Credits, a mix of Credits Montage and footage of a "Legends Game" with the old players, an old player argues a called strike with the umpire. She even discreetly kicks dirt on his shoes!
  Umpire: Yesterday it might've been a ball, tomorrow it might be a ball, but today it's a strike!
• For a guy who's only on screen about ten minutes, Jon Lovitz scores a stunning number of laughs as Ernie the league scouter.
  Ernie: If I had your job, I'd kill myself. Sit here, I'll see if I can dig up a pistol.
  • Ernie's reaction to seeing the cows milked.
    Ernie: Ow. Doesn't that hurt them?
    Dottie: ...Doesn't seem to.
    Ernie: That would bruise the hell out of me.
  • At least one of which was apparently an ad-lib:
    Ernie: [to a cow] Will you shut up?!
  • Ernie's line on not wanting to sign Marla may be harsh, but hilariously delivered.
  Ernie: You know General Omar Bradley?
  Dottie: Yeah.
  Ernie: There’s too strong a resemblance.
  • "Are you coming? See, how it works is, the train moves, not the station."
• After their night at the Suds Bucket, the Peaches are at confession for the evening. Mae is in with the preacher who's dropped his Bible twice and after she finishes he emerges sweating up a storm, implying she also noted she was Hot for Preacher.
  Doris: Mae, what did you tell him?!
  Mae: Everything.
• The Peaches are trying all kinds of stunts to draw attention to the women's league to keep it going and then there's Mae's suggestion.
  Mae: What if at a key moment in the game, my uniform bursts open and, uh, oops! My bosoms come flying out. That might draw a crowd, right?
  Doris: You think there are men in this country who ain't seen your bosoms?
  • The reactions from her teammates? Dottie and Ellen Sue are giving her a Death Glare, Marla is shocked at the suggestion, Helen just looks disappointed, and Kit and Betty are sniggering in the background.
• Mae takes it upon herself to teach Shirley how to read...by giving her an erotic novel. The look on Shirley's face when she realizes exactly what kind of book she's holding says it all. The other women get in on the action, too:
  Shirley: Gr-gra-grabb-ed?
  Mae: Grabbed.
  Shirley: Her. M-mil-milk-milky, milky...white? White! Milky white... br, br... — (her eyes go wide)
  Evelyn: Mae, what are you giving her to read?
  Mae: Oh, what difference does it make? She's readin', OK? That's the important thing. Now go away, shoo, shoo... (To Shirley) Go ahead, Shirley, you're doing good...it gets real good after that. [flipping the page] Look, the delivery boy walks in...
• A meta example. On the official website of the AAGPBL, it's mentioned that if you ask the surviving players which of them was the inspiration for Madonna's character, they will all raise their hands.
• The opposing catcher and manager's reaction to Dottie catching a foul pop up by doing a split.
  Catcher: I can't do that!
  Manager: Who can?!
  • In an interview years later, Geena Davis reveals why you don't see Dottie get up from the split; Geena couldn't.
• The news does a piece on the Rockford Peaches, highlighting things like Ellen Sue being a former Miss Georgia and Helen being an accomplished coffee maker. Then they get to the homely Marla.
  Announcer: And how about Marla Hooch? [she waves at the camera from thirty feet away] What a hitter!
• Mae narrowly makes it safe sliding into third base on a triple, prompting the announcer to comment "No wonder they call her All the Way Mae!" One wonders just who he thinks he's fooling.
• Jimmy and Dottie's conversation about her baseball skills.
  Jimmy: Does he know how good you are?
  Dottie: [confused] Who, Bob?
  Jimmy: No, Hitler. Yes, Bob.
• After Dottie hitches a ride (with a kid whose voice hasn't even changed, mind you),
  Kid: What's your rush, doll-body? What do you say we slip in the back-seat, and you make a man out of me?
  Dottie: How about I slap you around for a while?
  Kid: [earnestly] Can't we do both?

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