History Series / ALeagueOfTheirOwn

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''A League of Their Own'' is a 2022 Amazon Prime TV series based on the [[Film/ALeagueOfTheirOwn 1992 film of the same name]]. Like the film, it tells the story of the formation and first season of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The characters and storyline are original to the series, [[VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory though 'inspired' by the real women who formed the Rockford Peaches and other baseball events of the era.]]

The AAGPBL was formed during World War II to boost flagging game attendance with so many male players (And audience members) taken out of the game and into the armed forces. Its players were scouted from amateur women's leagues and clubs throughout the United States, and in some cases even beyond. For some women, being able to play professional baseball gives them independence and economic freedom that they were never able to achieve before. Others want to play solely for their love of the game. Regardless of their reasons, they face constant opposition both on and off the field.

In addition to exploring the sexism of the era which the women had to deal with, the series also explores in-depth the racial, sexuality, and gender issues which pervaded society at the time (And still today).

Created by by Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson (Who also stars as main character Carson Shaw), the eight-episode season covered initial tryouts up through the 1943 league championship.

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!!Contains examples of:
* AllForNothing: Max takes a job at the factory specifically so that she will eligible to join the company baseball team. After spending days sucking up to the star pitcher in the hopes that he will ask the coach to add her to the team, including quitting working at her mother's salon specifically so she can stay on the same shift as him, he abruptly quits so he can take another job at a different factory and the coach makes Gary the new pitcher without even giving Max a chance to try out.
* AutopilotArtistry: When Carson [[DareToBeBadass challenges "Dove" Porter to coach the team for real]], she starts by pitching a baseball at him from behind. She expected him to instinctively catch it, [[SubvertedTrope but because he had no idea she was there or was throwing something at him]] [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome it sails right past his head and smashes into his car]].
* TheBeard:
** Greta explains to Carson that whenever she starts a new relationship with a woman, she makes a point of being seen on the arm of a man that same night to throw off any suspicion. She later goes on a date arranged through the league with a male fan.
** When Shirley begins to suspect that Jo is gay, Carson makes up a story on the spot that Jo was actually having a secret affair with "Dove" Porter, their coach. [[spoiler:When Jo is eventually outed, Shirley takes it that Jo had fooled Carson by pretending to be having an affair with Dove]].
** The wife of the owner of the hidden gay bar in Rockford frequently goes out in public with a male soldier, and when Carson first met her she assumed that he was her husband. It turns out that they're ''both'' gay.
* BlatantLies: The series opens with Carson rushing to catch a train out of town and bumping into somebody she knows at the train station. Despite carrying luggage and literally ''running after the train'', she tells them that she will see them later today.
* BoisterousBruiser: Jo. Her powerful batting skill and exuberant personality always help keep the team spirits up.
* BrokenPedestal: Carson starts out idolizing "Dove" Porter due to his time pitching in the major leagues, and his original jovial attitude makes her think that he will be a great coach and mentor for the Peaches. Unfortunately she quickly learns that the joviality is an act, since he doesn't respect any of the female players or the league itself and is only coasting until the gimmick gets him enough attention to trade to a 'real' team.
* ButchLesbian: Jess, Lupe, and Jo favor more masculine clothing and Jess constantly wears pants in public even though she always gets fined for it. Lupe and Jo also wears their hair short and Jess ties her longer hair into a tight braid in the back.
* CanadaEh: Jess hails from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The gruff, no-nonsense, [[TheLadette smokin', pissin', and drinkin']] shortstop is also a competent outdoorsman (implied to have survived several boat sinkings) and often shares characteristically rural aphorisms.
* CastFullOfGay: The vast majority of the cast is some variety of queer.
* CelebCrush: Carson is shocked when Jess and Lupe point out to her that they're ''famous'', and are an object of desire for all the gay women at the bar. Jess and Lupe call over a pair of twins who gush over meeting her, and when she coincidentally bumps into them at the restaurant their father runs they send over complimentary drinks and can't help but stare at her and Greta together.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: Carson Shaw is a deliberate inversion of Dottie Hinson's character from the original film. Dottie grew up and worked on her family's farm, while Carson [[RunningGag repeatedly states that she isn't from a farm]]. Dottie was HappilyMarried and very nearly left the Peaches to reunite with her husband, while Carson joined the Peaches to get away from her husband. Dottie was TheAce who was regarded as both the best player in the entire league and also the public face of women's baseball, while Carson's arc is [[CharacterDevelopment learning to believe in herself and growing into a position of leadership]].
* DareToBeBadass: Carson realizes that Coach "Dove" Porter has no inclination to put effort into coaching them since he has no faith in the team and is just coasting in the hopes that having his name attached to a gimmick will get him enough attention to leverage a position with a 'real' baseball team. She ambushes him in a parking lot and says that if he wants them to be better then ''coach them'', and if he can't do that then at least stay out of their way so they can work on improving themselves. [[spoiler:She is completely surprised when he instead abandons the Peaches midway through a following game and takes a job with an MLB team]].
* DefeatingTheCheatingOpponent: In their first night game, [[spoiler: Carson & Lupe confront the umpire when they realize that the left field lights are being turned off when it's their turn to bat, done at the behest of the opposing team's coach who has been exploiting his influence over the home field. Eventually, they convince the umpire to have the lights left on, allowing the Peaches to rally and win the game.]]
* DistinctionWithoutADifference: One of the complaints that "Dove" Porter has about [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten people only ever remembering that he hit a bird with a pitch in his short time playing in the major leagues]] is that the bird was actually a pigeon, not a dove. Carson has to explain to him that doves ''are'' pigeons. [[note]]There are many different species in the bird family Columbidae which are collectively known as 'pigeons', and the term 'dove' is used for some of the smaller species and ones with white coloration.[[/note]]
* DownToTheLastPlay: The 1943 league championship is all tied up in the bottom of the ninth with two outs. [[spoiler:Jo hits a home run for the Blue Sox, but her leg injury causes her to collapse at first base and league rules specify that she ''has'' to walk the bases or the run doesn't count. Even knowing that it will cause them to lose the game, the Peaches pick her up and carry her around the bases to score the run and win the championship for the Blue Sox]].
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Everybody can tell that Gary has a crush on Max, with Clance hoping that they will settle down together so they can double-date.
* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: After the police raid on the nightclub, [[spoiler:Beverly [[SubvertedTrope pays off the police to NOT publicly out Jo]] because she knows that Jo would be fired from the league and face immediate personal danger. [[DownplayedTrope The rest of the Peaches still figure out the truth, including Shirley who has been speculating about Jo's sexuality for a while]]]].
* FragileSpeedster: Esti González, the smallest and youngest member of the team, is the "fastest stealer in the League". While not necessarily physically fragile, her age & inexperience makes her vulnerable to emotional woes.
* FriendOrIdolDecision: [[spoiler: When Jo injures herself during her home run in the league championship, if the Peaches do nothing her run doesn't count and they have a chance to win the game in extra innings. Instead they pick her up and carry her around the bases to score her run and win the game for the Blue Sox]].
* GayBarReveal: When Carson follows Lupe to see if she is trying to get traded to another team, she is so angry while confronting her that she doesn't notice the bar they wind up at is full of same-sex couples and people dressed in extravagant clothing. Jess has to explicitly tell Carson to look around for her to realize that she stumbled into something other than a baseball meeting.
* GayEuphemism: The real-life term "Friend of Dorothy" is used to identify whether to let somebody into the secret gay bar in Rockford.
* GenderBlenderName: Max's mother Toni Chapman half-jokes that the only reason a bank gave her a loan for her business is because they mistook her name for a man's name. This gives Max the idea to try and [[SweetPollyOliver pass as a man]].
* GloryDays: "Dove" Porter spent three years playing in the major leagues before [[CareerEndingInjury his arm gave out]], and has countless stories about the superstar players he encountered in that time.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Max makes it her mission to suck up to the star pitcher on the factory team so that he will put in a good word for her with the coach. She impresses him so much -- and does so much of his work for him -- that when he transfers shifts he pulls strings for her to come with him to the 'better' day shift. Unfortunately this means that she [[TripleShifter cannot continue to hide the job from her parents by working nights]] and has to publicly quit working at her mother's salon.
* GoodLuckCharm: The team starts a tradition of kissing Jo's arm before the game for good luck. This leads to the pun that they need Jo's arm (good luck) and they need Jo's arm (her batting skill).
* HeteronormativeCrusader: The league expends much time, effort, and money on making sure that the players are all still 'proper' women. This includes mandating the clothing they wear in their own free time, makeup during the games, and even arranging dates for them with appropriate (male) fans. It's never explicitly stated by the league, but the women who are gay know that they will be fired immediately if they are ever outed to the administration.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Max and Clance are so close that Clance tells Max she is the most important person to her in the world, [[ImStandingRightHere even though her husband Guy is right next to them]]. Clance repeatedly states that she would chose Max over Guy, and Max states that as much as she loves baseball it's Clance who is her 'team'.
* HidingYourHeritage: The Mexican-American Lupe García is labelled the 'Spanish Striker' by the management and press, since saying she is of Spanish descent instead of Mexican is easier for the public to accept. Ironically, the actually-foreign Esti González ''doesn't'' need to hide her heritage, since at the time American society regarded Cubans as being of Spanish (European) descent and therefore classified as 'white' when it came to issues of segregation and law.
* {{Homage}}: Carson's introduction to the secret gay bar recreates Dorothy's introduction to Oz in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. The sequence starts out almost sepia-toned in the gray tax office, then the shot follows her as she walks through the door with blue lighting into the full-color bar. The camerwork showing the door opening and Carson walking forward even mimics the camerwork from the film.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: "Dove" Porter is resentful that his short career in the major leagues ended before he could accomplish anything memorable other than [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten hit a bird with a pitch]]. Now he spends his time [[GloryDays telling stories about the people he briefly encountered who have gone on to be superstars]].
* ImplausibleDeniability: Lupe claims to Carson that she doesn't know the Comets' pitcher immediately after calling her 'baby' and trying to keep her from storming out of their date.
* ImStandingRightHere: Clance tells Max she is the most important person to her in the world, even though her husband Guy is right next to them.
* IncompatibleOrientation:
** Carson is married to Charlie, a man who she seems to deeply care for, but with Greta's prompting she admits to herself in the very first episode that she doesn't -- ''can't'' -- love him.
** Gary has a very obvious crush on Max, and she ''tries'' to reciprocate, but she simply doesn't have any attraction to him at all.
** After Shirley discovers that several of her teammates are gay, she panics due to her fears of it spreading like a disease. She eventually forces herself to kiss Carson and is relieved when she realizes that she feels no attraction to her and she is still straight.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: The rest of the team is unconsciously racist towards Lupe, because they never considered how working around her close relationship with Dove effectively shunned their one Mexican player and excluded her from their team bonding. Even Jess, Lupe's best friend on the team, doesn't understand [[YouKnowImBlackRight until Lupe points it out]].
* IntergenerationalRivalry: Clance has an ongoing feud with the children next door [[SeriousBusiness over their interpretation and critique of comicbooks]].
* ItsAllAboutMe: Max has an unfortunate habit of taking Clance's emotional support and forgetting to return it when necessary. After losing her spot on the company baseball team she goes to Clance's house, only for Clance to point out that this is her and Guy's ''last night together before he is drafted into the army''. Clance had hoped that Max was coming to offer her own support, and has to shut the door in her face when she realized that Max had come for Clance to comfort ''her''.
* IWillWaitForYou: Clance is waiting for Guy, and there is never even a hint of her looking around for somebody else to keep her company while he is away.
* JackieRobinsonStory: While the entire league has to struggle with the institutional sexism of America in 1943, Max also has to struggle against the racism of the era as well. She is not even allowed to try out for the league, and spends the whole season trying to force her way onto a local team that blocks her for her sex, her race, or both.
* JoeSentMe: You can gain access to the hidden gay bar in Rockford by saying that you are a [[GayEuphemism friend of Dorothy]].
* KeepTheHomeFiresBurning:
** The league forms in the first place because the men are off at war, and women are stepping in to fill their shoes. The league owners primarily want to boost ticket sales for financial gain, but there's a little bit of moral support as well to keep American society supported by the pillar that is Baseball.
** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed with Carson and her relationship with Charlie]]. They're married, and she does care for him deeply, but [[IncompatibleOrientation she doesn't love him]] and is actually personally happier with him away at war. When she learns that he is being discharged and sent home [[RunawayFiance she panics and flees]].
** Clance's husband Guy is drafted shortly after their wedding, and much of her story is her struggling to deal with the fear of what may happen to him while he is away.
* TheLancer: Lupe becomes co-captain of the team with [[TheLeader Carson]]. This started out rough but they eventually learned to work together, filling the gaps in each others' leadership methods.
* LanguageBarrier: Esti González only speaks Spanish, while the rest of the Peaches speak English. Lupe speaks both English and Spanish and becomes Esti's ''de facto'' interpreter, but she resents being forced into the role. Jess is the one who really tries to look out for Esti, and throughout the season stumbles in trying to learn Spanish (And teaching Esti English) to make communication easier.
* LateComingOut: Carson is already a grown, married woman before she accepts that she is attracted to women [[IncompatibleOrientation and not to her husband]].
* LaughingMad: With the combined personal stresses of a husband away at war and the loss of a lifelong dream, Clance and Max spend one shift at the factory with brazenly demented smiles and constant gigging as they try to pretend that they aren't emotionally devestated.
* LikeGoesWithLike: [[PlayingWithATrope Non-romantic version]], Lupe is forced to become Esti's ''de facto'' interpreter since she is the only player who speaks both English and Spanish. [[DeconstructedTrope She resents the way this forces her to care for Esti]] simply because they are the only two Hispanic players, and becomes harsh and dismissive as a result.
* LipstickLesbian: Carson and Greta qualify, as does a player for the Blue Sox who is discussed when Lupe, Jess, and Carson are at the gay bar.
-->'''Carson:''' She's so girly!\\
'''Jess:''' So are you. So is Greta. I mean, not everybody's butch.
* LoopholeAbuse:
** In the final play of the championship game [[spoiler:Jo is injured at first base and the rules specify that her teammates cannot help her round the bases to score her run. There is no rule that her ''opponents'' cannot help her, so the Peaches pick her up and walk the bases to score the winning run for the Blue Sox.]]
** Beverly collects fines each time a player breaks one of the league's behavior rules, such as wearing pants in public. [[spoiler:When the season is over she returns all of the fined money back to the players, since the rules only said she had to ''collect'' it, not what she had to do with it]].
* MistakenForCheating: [[PlayedForLaughs Played for laughs]] with Lupe and the Comets' pitcher. When Carson sees them talking and finds them together in the bar, she thinks Lupe is trying to leave the Peaches and get transferred to the Comets. It takes a whole conversation, and Jess's help, for her to figure out that they were on a ''date''. The pitcher for her part thinks that Carson's anger is because ''she'' and Lupe were dating, and is horrified at the thought that she might be 'the other woman' and apologizes profusely.
* MultinationalTeam: The Rockford Peaches are predominantly American, but the team also includes Canadian, Cuban, and unspecified other nationalities as well. The league scouted as far as they could to get qualified players when they were starting up.
* NeverTellMeTheOdds: After getting a few wins in, Lupe, Carson & Jess go over their odds and declare that they can win the whole thing, despite still having a lot of games left to play. [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] later in the series as they get closer to the championships; [[TheSmartGuy Shirley]] approaches Carson with the information that [[spoiler: they only have a 1-in-18 chance and that they have to win [[MillionToOneChance almost every game]], which does not help Carson who's already dealing with a stack of issues as coach.]]
* NotHisSled: The show follows the same general concept of the movie, but is classified as a 'reimagining' instead of a 'remake' so goes in several different directions.
** Nick Offerman is put into the role of the WhiteDwarfStarlet Coach Dove Porter. [[spoiler: In the movie the coach grew with the team and became an integral part, but here he leaves midway after failing to step up after Carson challenges him to.]]
* OddFriendship:
** Max is a spirited athlete who lives & breathes baseball and Clance is a nerdy homemaker who makes comics. Even ''they'' wonder [[LampshadeHanging how they are best friends]].
** Jo and Maybelle are polar opposites in many ways but get along nicely as roommates.
* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: Clance refers to Max's nonbinary uncle Bert as a "freak", unaware that Max is struggling with her own gender identity.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: "Dove" Porter once hit a bird while he was pitching, and that is all that anybody remembers about his tenure in the major leagues. It even gave him his nickname. Now he resents that his tenure was so short that he never had time to accomplish anything else ''besides'' the bird.
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: When Carson follows Lupe into a hidden bar and finds her talking with the pitcher from the Comets, she harangues her for going behind everybody's back and trying to get traded to another baseball team. Lupe, in turn, desperately tries to persuade Carson not to out her to the rest of the team after Carson figured out that Lupe was gay and tracked her to her date at a secret gay bar.
* OpposingSportsTeam: The Blue Sox are ranked #1 in the league, and are the Peaches' rival for the league championship.
* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Carson overhears Lupe begging Beverly to 'swap her out', and believes she's trying to get traded to another team. Lupe was just asking to be moved rooms, since she didn't want to keep being forced to spend time with Esti.
* ParentalSubstitute: Lupe and Jess to Esti. [[spoiler: When Esti gets homesick and attempts to run away, Lupe and Jess waste no time finding her. When they eventually do, Jess takes time to teach Esti how to drive, and Lupe shares a story about her own [[YouCantGoHomeAgain family troubles]] to connect with the kid.]]
* PassFail: Max decides to [[SweetPollyOliver disguise herself as a man]] to get a job at the factory, and from there get onto the company baseball team. Unfortunately, the two racist women she met when she tried to apply as a woman are present and recognize her literally as soon as she walks onto the factory floor for her first shift. Luckily for her, the manager is so desperate for workers that he doesn't care once he confirms that she's able-bodied and willing to risk injury.
* PassionateSportsGirl: The series explores the different ways this can manifest for the different players.
** Carson wants to play for the independence it allows her from her husband.
** Greta and Jo see it as another adventure in their lives before they go to California and try to get into movies.
** Max is the one whose passion is for the game itself. She will gladly play for no money on a podunk company team that only plays other podunk company teams if it means she gets to ''play''.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Greta and Jo have grown up together, traveled together, came to grips with their sexuality together, and are now playing baseball together. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope However as the season progresses they grow apart and eventually realize that they each need to live their own lives, and cannot continue to live as a duo]].]]
* PlayingCatchWithTheOldMan: [[PlayedStraight Played to the letter]] with Max and her dad on Episode 4. Her dad has been supportive of her baseball dreams thus far, and when Max seeks advice for her upcoming tryout, he says he has nothing left to teach her, "except to celebrate".
* PoliceBrutality: The cops raid the secret gay bar in Rockford, roughing up anybody they catch. [[spoiler:They arrest Jo, and when she returns to the house the next day she has a bloody wound on her head and walks with a limp. The leg injury is so bad that it pops up again during the last game of the season]].
* ProverbialWisdom: Coach "Dove" Porter fills almost all of his coaching with anecdotes of his time playing baseball, or down-home folksy wisdom. As time progresses, [[SubvertedTrope the Peaches come to realize that he isn't really saying anything]].
* ReassignedToAntarctica: At the end of the season, [[spoiler: Jo is transferred to the Blue Sox after she is arrested at a gay bar. This is viewed by the rest of the Peaches as a punishment, but is at least partly for her protection since if she stayed in Rockford she was in physical danger after being caught with a local girl]].
* RedBaron:
** "Dove" Porter got his nickname from when he once hit a bird with a pitch. Ironically, he hates the nickname because [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten it is the only thing he is remembered for]].
** Pitcher Lupe García is nicknamed the 'Spanish Striker' [[HidingYourHeritage to convince the public that she is of Spanish descent, and not Mexican]].
* RemakeCameo: Rosie O'Donnell, who appeared in the original film, guest-stars in an episode as the owner of a hidden gay bar that the queer girls on the team discover.
* RunawayFiance: Carson and Charlie are already married, but Charlie is away serving in the war [[DownplayedTrope so they are not living together as husband and wife]]. When Carson learns that he is being discharged and sent home, she panics at the thought of actually being married ''together'' and flees to the league.
* RunningGag:
** The most frequent gag is people talking about Carson being from a farm since she is from Idaho, and how she presents an entire farmgirl persona. She repeatedly insists every time that she isn't actually from a farm.
** Guy just ''[[SayingTooMuch cannot]]'' [[SayingTooMuch keep his mouth shut.]]
* SayingTooMuch: Guy just ''cannot'' keep his mouth shut. He tells Max's mother that she went to the baseball tryouts in Chicago, and later spilled the beans that Gary had been offered the new position as pitcher on the company team. After he's drafted, Clance sarcastically remarks that he's probably going to give away their home coordinates to the Germans.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Beverly, the chaperone for the Peaches, has to enforce all of the morality rules required by the league to uphold their image as "proper" ladies. [[spoiler:When Jo is arrested at the gay bar, Beverly pays out of her own pocket to have the police not publicly out her so that she won't be fired from the league. She also returns all of Jess's fines for wearing pants in public at the end of the season, reasoning that the rules say she has to ''collect'' the fines, [[LoopholeAbuse but doesn't specify what she has to do with them]].]]
* SecondPlaceIsForWinners: [[spoiler:The Peaches were once ranked dead-last in the entire league, so managing to make it to the championships and play all the way to the final inning of the last game is a victory all by itself]].
* SecretRoom: The gay bar in Rockford is hidden behind an office with a man who offers tax advice, but who will show you in [[JoeSentMe if you are a friend of Dorothy]].
* SeriousBusiness: Clance has an ongoing [[IntergenerationalRivalry feud with the neighboring kids]] over their interpretation of comic books.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler: The season ends with Carson and Greta exchanging a last passionate kiss and promising to see each other next season and Carson telling Greta she plans to leave Charlie, only for Carson to turn around and see that Charlie was watching the whole thing.]]
* ShoutOut:
** New Yorkers Jo and Greta make reference to ''Literature/ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn'' several times.
** ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' receives extensive discussion and features prominently as characters attend several showings of the film and debate its meaning. The real-life term "[[GayEuphemism Friend of Dorothy]]" even shows up [[JoeSentMe to gain access to the hidden gay bar]].
* StatuesqueStunner: Greta Gill is the tallest of all the Peaches, and is also the most glamorous and made-up as well.
* StayInTheKitchen
** The league has to deal with the public perception that women either can't play baseball well enough to be worth watching, or if they ''can'' then they'll be unfeminine, unattractive, and immoral. The league enforces rules requiring makeup, skirts for play, and specific public behavior to make sure they always look properly feminine enough.
** Gary, a fellow pitcher who has a crush on Max, lets slip several times that even though he knows she's a better pitcher than him, he expects her to give up baseball and settle down (hopefully with him).
* StealingTheCredit: It is [[ImpliedTrope very lightly implied]] that "Dove" Porter took Carson's diagrams and records of play history and passed them off as his own to secure a MLB position.
* SweetPollyOliver: Max disguises herself as a man to get a job at the factory in town since even though they're taking black men for the factory, black women aren't being considered for the office. [[SubvertedTrope She is exposed as soon as she walks onto the work floor because she's recognized by the racist women who turned her away to begin with]], but the factory is so desperate for workers that they don't care and let her keep working without a disguise. They then begin openly hiring black women for the factory as well.
* TerritorialSmurfette: Esther is the pitcher for the Red Wright All Stars, and she is rude when Max mentions that she is ''also'' a pitcher since she doesn't want Max taking her spot on the team. [[spoiler:She changes her tune pretty quickly when she sees Max watching a game, and even fakes an injury so Max has a chance to play and be recruited as the team's ''second'' female pitcher]]. She later explicitly says she did this ''because'' she realized that if there wasn't enough room for both of them, the blame lay with the men who made things this way in the first place.
* ThrowingTheFight: The Rockford Screws have an annual exhibition game against the Red Wright All Stars, and the Screws have a five-year winning streak in these games. When the All Stars start suddenly performing poorly, the audience echoes a rumor that they get a cut of the ticket sales if they throw the game. Red Wright himself later all but admits it to Max.
* TransparentCloset: Many of the women on the team realize that Carson is a lesbian soon after meeting her, in at least one case even before she admits it to herself.
* TripleShifter: Max gets a job working nights at the factory in the hopes of getting onto the company team, and to keep it a secret she continues working days at her mother's salon. She's exhausted, but [[DownplayedTrope before it drags on long enough for her to be discovered]] she is transferred to the day shift at the factory and has to come clean to her mother anyway.
* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Max's mother Toni is desperate to keep Max from ever meeting or knowing about "Aunt Bertie", Toni's sibling who is living life happily as Uncle Bert.
* TwinThreesomeFantasy: Jess and Lupe are eager to call over the pair of twins sitting at the bar in the secret gay bar, and are just as quick to push Carson away from the table (she is, after all, both married ''and'' taken) to leave them alone.
* UnderdogsNeverLose: At one point the Peaches are ranked last in the league, and even after climbing out of that hole they're still mediocre-ranked for most of the season. After managing to beat the Blue Sox, the #1 team, they decided to drive for the league championship. Despite doubt from the management and needing to pull off an unbroken series of wins to even qualify, they win every subsequent game and do make it to the championship game after all. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope They lose in the final game of the series]].]]
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The specific characters and narrative are wholly original to the series. The series does incorporate real-life events that occurred during and around the AAGPBL formation, and applies them to the fictitious original characters.
* WartimeWedding: They didn't mean it to be, but Clance and Guy got married shortly before the start of the series, only for Guy to be drafted almost immediately thereafter.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: In-Universe, Clance manages to glean an entire socio-economic morality tale from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' that serves as a metaphor for the racism, imperialism, and economic history of the USA (albeit leaning heavily on the old chestnut that Dorothy killed the Wicked Witch of the East, which she didn't).
* YouAreInCommandNow:
** When coach "Dove" Porter walks off in the middle of a game, Carson and Lupe are drafted as interim coaches. [[spoiler:Carson is made the permanent coach when they learn Dove is not coming back]].
** Max is abruptly promoted to shift lead at the factory when the previous lead quit to take a different job.
* YouGoGirl: Since the AAGPBL is segregated, Max has to try and find a way to force her way onto a local company team which is already recruiting black factory workers. At one point she offers up two weeks' worth of wages to prove that she can out-pitch any of the current players. [[SubvertedTrope Unfortunately, she's so obsessed with proving herself that she can't focus or settle down, and she botches all of her pitches]]. [[spoiler:She does eventually prove what she can do after her own character growth later in the series]].
* YouKnowImBlackRight: When Jess asks why Lupe is so angry at Carson and the rest of the Peaches, Lupe points out the way that everything has been slanted in Caron's favor -- [[InnocentlyInsensitive even subconsciously]] -- and asks Jess if she can figure out why she might be angry at it. ''Hermano''.

* YouKnowImBlackRight: When Jess asks why Lupe is so angry at Carson and the rest of the Peaches, Lupe points out the way that everything has been slanted in Caron's favor -- [[InnocentlyInsensitive even subconsciously]] -- and asks Jess if she can figure out why she might be angry at it. ''Hermano''.

* ButchLesbian: Jess, Lupe, and Jo favor more masculine clothing and Jess constantly wears pants in public even though she always gets fined it. Lupe also wears her hair short and Jess ties her longer hair into a tight braid in the back.

* ButchLesbian: Both Jess and Lupe favor more masculine clothing and Jess constantly wears pants in public even though she always gets fined it. Lupe also wears her hair short and Jess ties her longer hair into a tight braid in the back.

* LipstickLesbian: Carson and Greta qualify, as does a player for another team who is discussed.

* JackieRobinsonStory: While the entire league has to struggle with the institutional sexism of America in 1943, Max also has to struggle against the racism of the era as well. She is not even allowed to tryout for the league, and spends the whole season trying to force her way onto a local team that blocks her for her sex, her race, or both.

* PassFail: Max decides to [[SweetPollyOliver disguise herself as a man]] to get a job at the factory, and from there get onto the company baseball team. Unfortunately she doesn't know ''how'' to pass as a man, so she is discovered literally as soon as she walks onto the factory floor for her first shift. Luckily for her they're so desperate for workers that they don't care.

** Max is the one whose passion is for the game itself. She will gladly play for no money on a podunk company team that only plays other podunk company teams if it means she gets to '''play'''.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Greta and Jo have grown up together, travelled together, came to grips with their sexuality together, and are now playing baseball together. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope However as the season progresses they grow apart and eventually realize that they each need to live their own lives, and cannot continue to live as a duo]].]]

* RemakeCameo: Rosie O'Donnell, who appeared in the original film, guest-stars in an episode as the owner of a hidden gay bar that the team discovers.
* RunawayFiance: Carson and Charlie are already married, but Charlie is away serving in the war [[DownplayedTrope so they are not living together as husband and wife]]. When Carson learns that he is being discharged and sent home, she panics at the though of actually being married ''together'' and flees to the league.

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Beverly, the chaperone for the Peaches, has to enforce all of the morality rules required by the league to uphold their image as 'proper' ladies. [[spoiler:When Jo is arrested at the gay bar, Beverly pays out of her own pocket to have the police not publicly out her so that she won't be fired from the league. She also returns all of Jess's fines for wearing pants in public at the end of the season, reasoning that the rules say she has to ''collect'' the fines, [[LoopholeAbuse but doesn't specify what she has to do with them]].]]

* SeriousBusiness: Clance has an ongoing [[IntergenerationalRivalry feud with the neighboring kids]] over their interpretation of comicbooks.

** Gary, a fellow pitcher who has a crush on Max, let's slip several times that even though he knows she's a better pitcher than him he expects her to give up baseball and settle down (Hopefully with him).

* SweetPollyOliver: Max disguises herself as a man to get a job at the factory in town since even though they're taking black men for the factory, black women aren't being considered for the office. [[SubvertedTrope Since she has no experience disguising herself as a man she is exposed as soon as she walks onto the work floor]], but the factory is so desperate for workers that they don't care and let her keep working without a disguise. They then begin openly hiring black women for the factory as well.
* TerritorialSmurfette: Esther is the pitcher for the Red Wright All Stars, and she is rude when Max mentions that she is ''also'' a pitcher since she doesn't want Max taking her spot on the team. [[spoiler:She changes her tune pretty quickly when she sees Max watching a game, and even fakes an injury so Max has a chance to play and be recruited as the team's ''second'' female pitcher]].

* TransparentCloset: Many of the women on the team realize that Carson is a lesbian soon after meeting her, in at last one case even before she admits it to herself.

* TwinThreesomeFantasy: Jess and Lupe are eager to call over the pair of twins sitting at the bar in the secret gay bar, and are just as quick to push Carson away from the table (She is, after all, both married ''and'' taken) to leave them alone.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: In-Universe, Clance manages to glean an entire socio-economic morality tale from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' that serves as a metaphor for the racism, imperialism, and economic history of the USA.

* YouGoGirl: Since the AAGPBL is segregated, Max has to try and find a way to force her way onto a local company team which is already recruiting black factory workers. At one point she offers up two weeks worth of wages to prove that she can out-pitch any of the current players. [[SubvertedTrope Unfortunately she's so obsessed with proving herself that she can't focus or settle down, and she botches all of her pitches]]. [[spoiler:She does eventually prove what she can do after her own character growth later in the series]].

* LikeGoesWithLike: [[PlayingWithATrope Non-romantic version]], Lupe is forced to become Esti's ''de facto'' interpreter since she is the only who speaks both English and Spanish. [[DeconstructedTrope She resents the way this forces her to care for Esti]] simply because they are the only two Hispanic players, and becomes harsh and dismissive as a result.
* LoopholeAbuse: Beverly collects fines each time a player breaks one of the league's behavior rules, such as wearing pants in public. [[spoiler:When the season is over she returns all of the fined money back to the players, since the rules only said she had to ''collect'' it, not what she had to do with it]].

* MistakenForCheating: [[PlayedForLaughs Played for laughs]] with Lupe and the Blue Sox pitcher. When Carson sees them talking and finds them together in the bar, she thinks Lupe is trying to leave the Peaches and get transferred to the Blue Sox. It takes a whole conversation, and Jess's help, for her to figure out that they were on a ''date''. The pitcher for her part thinks that Carson's anger is because ''she'' and Lupe were dating, and is horrified at the thought that she might be 'the other woman' and apologizes profusely.

* HidingYourHeritage: The Mexican-American Lupe García is labelled the 'Spanish Striker' by the management and press, since saying she is of Spanish descent instead of Mexican is easier for the public to accept. Ironically, the actually-foreign Esti González ''doesn't'' need to hide her heritage, since at the time American society regarded Cubans as being of European descent and therefore classified as 'white' when it came to issues of segregation and law.

* ParentalSubstitute: Lupe and Jess to Esti. [[spoiler: When Esti gets homesick and attempts to run away, Lupe and Jess waste no time finding her. When they eventually do, Jess takes time to teach Esti how to drive, and Lupe shares a story about her own [[YouCantGoHomeAgain family troubles]] to connect with the kid.]]

* YouAreInCommandNow: When coach "Dove" Porter walks off in the middle of a game, Carson and Lupe are drafted as interim coaches. [[spoiler:Carson is made the permanent coach when they learn Dove is not coming back]].

* DownToTheLastPlay: The 1943 league championship is all tied up in the bottom of the ninth with two outs. [[spoiler:Jo hits a home run for the Blue Socks, but her leg injury causes her to collapse at first base and league rules specify that she ''has'' to walk the bases or the run doesn't count. Even knowing that it will cause them to lose the game, the Peaches pick her up and carry her around the bases to score the run and win the championship for the Blue Socks]].

* FriendOrIdolDecision: [[spoiler: When Jo injures herself during her home run in the league championship, if the Peaches do nothing her run doesn't count and they have a chance to win the game in extra innings. Instead they pick her up and carry her around the bases to score her run and win the game for the Blue Socks]].

* MistakenForCheating: [[PlayedForLaughs Played for laughs]] with Lupe and the Blue Socks pitcher. When Carson sees them talking and finds them together in the bar, she thinks Lupe is trying to leave the Peaches and get transferred to the Blue Socks. It takes a whole conversation, and Jess's help, for her to figure out that they were on a ''date''. The pitcher for her part thinks that Carson's anger is because ''she'' and Lupe were dating, and is horrified at the thought that she might be 'the other woman' and apologizes profusely.

* OpposingSportsTeam: The Blue Socks are ranked #1 in the league, and are the Peaches' rival for the league championship.

* ReassignedToAntarctica: At the end of the season, [[spoiler: Jo is transferred to the Blue Socks after she is arrested at a gay bar. This is viewed by the rest of the Peaches as a punishment, but is at least partly for her protection since if she stayed in Rockford she was in physical danger after being caught with a local girl]].

* ShoutOut: ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' receives extensive discussion and features prominently as characters attend several showings of the film and debate its meaning. The real-life term "[[GayEuphemism Friend of Dorothy]]" even shows up [[JoeSentMe to gain access to the hidden gay bar]].

* TheLancer: Lupe becomes co-captain of the team with [[TheLeader Carson]]. This started out rough but they eventually learned to work together, filling the gaps in each others' leadership methods.

* UnderdogsNeverLose: At one point the Peaches are ranked last in the league, and even after climbing out of that hole they're still mediocre-ranked for most of the season. After managing to beat the Blue Socks, the #1 team, they decided to drive for the league championship. Despite doubt from the management and needing to pull off an unbroken series of wins to even qualify, they win every subsequent game and do make it to the championship game after all. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope They lose in the final game of the series]].]]

* YouGoGirl: Since the AAGPBL is segregated, Max has to try and find a way to force her way onto a local company team which is already recruiting black factory workers. At one point she offers up two weeks worth of wages to prove that she can out-pitch any of the current players. [[SubvertedTrope Unfortunately she's so obsessed with proving herself that she can't focus or settle down, and she botches all of her pitches]]. [[spoiler:She does eventually prove what she can do after her own character growth later in the series]].

''A League of Their Own'' is a 2022 Amazon Prime TV series based on the [[Film/ALeagueOfTheirOwn 1992 film of the same name]]. Like the film, it tells the story of the formation and first season of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which was formed during World War II to boost flagging game attendance with so many male players (And audience members) taken out of the game and into the armed forces. The characters and storyline are original to the series, though 'inspired' by the real women who formed the Rockford Peaches and other baseball events of the era.

In addition to exploring the sexism of the era which the women had to deal with, the series also explores in-depth the racial, sexuality, and gender issues which pervaded society at the time (And still today).

* SayingTooMuch: Guy just ''cannot'' keep his mouth shut. He tells Max's mother that she went to the baseball tryouts in Chicago, and later spilled the beans that Gary had been offered the new position as pitcher on the company team.

* CanadaEh: Jess hails from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. The gruff shortstop is a competent outdoorsman (implied to have survived several boat sinkings) and often shares characteristically rural aphorisms.

Created by created by Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson (Who also stars as main character Carson Shaw), the eight-episode season covered initial tryouts up through the 1943 league championship.

* DefeatingTheCheatingOpponent: In their first night game, [[spoiler: Carson & Lupe confront the umpire when they realize that the left field lights are being turned off when it's their turn to bat, upon the direction of the opposing team's coach who has been exploiting his influence over the home field. Eventually, they convince the umpire to have the lights left on, allowing the Peaches to rally and win the game.]]

* DefeatingTheCheatingOpponent: In their first night game, [[spoiler: Carson & Lupe confront the umpire when they realize that the left field lights are being turned off when it's their turn to bat, and learn that the opposing team's coach has been exploiting his influence over the home field. Eventually, they convince the umpire to have the lights left on, allowing the Peaches to rally and win the game.]]

* NeverTellMeTheOdds: After getting a few wins in, Lupe, Carson & Jess go over their odds and declare that they can win the whole thing, despite still having a lot of games left to play. [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] later in the series as they get closer to the championships; [[TheSmartGuy Shirley]] approaches Carson with the information that [[spoiler: they only have 1 in 18 chance and that they have to win [[MillionToOneChance almost every game]], which does not help Carson who's already dealing with a stack of issues as coach.]]

* DefeatingTheCheatingOpponent: In their first night game, [[spoiler: Carson & Lupe confront the opposing team's coach for giving them a handicap; he's been using his influence to get the left field lights turned off when it's the Peaches' turn to bat. They eventually convince the umpire to have the lights left on, allowing the Peaches to rally and win the game. ]]

* DefeatingTheCheatingOpponent: In their first night game, [[spoiler: Carson & Lupe confront the opposing team's coach for giving them a handicap; the left field lights are being turned off when it's their turn to bat. They eventually convince the umpire to have the lights left on, allowing the Peaches to rally and win the game. ]]

* TheLancer: Lupe becomes co-captain of the team with [[TheLeader Carson]]. This started out rough but they eventually learned to work together.

* NeverTellMeTheOdds: After getting a few wins in, Lupe, Carson & Jess go over their odds and determine that they can win the whole thing. [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] later in the series as they get closer to the championships; [[TheSmartGuy Shirley]] approaches Carson with the information that [[spoiler: they only have 1 in 18 chance and that they have to win [[MillionToOneChance almost every game]], which does not help Carson who's already dealing with a stack of issues as coach.]]