Awesome / A League of Their Own

• When Capadino turns down Marla because she isn't pretty even though she's a fantastic hitter, Dottie and Kit don't even discuss it. They exchange a look and immediately put down their things, refusing to budge until he changes his mind.
• When Marla is trying out for the team, she's hitting solid line drives that have some distance. Her father, noticing that Ernie isn't entirely convinced, then drops the bombshell: "OK, Marla--now lefty." She proceeds to start pulverizing the pitches, sending the ball crashing through windows.
  • Pay attention to the reaction in the room when Marla's father tells her to start hitting left-handed—they all groan and start moving back. Her reputation as a power-hitter definitely precedes her!
• Ellen Sue throwing a ball at an older gentleman who was heckling the team during warmups, knocking him off his feet.
  (shrugs) It slipped!
• Even drunk and disinterested, Jimmy is observant enough to know that Marla is their best hitter, and has the baseball IQ to know that having her bunt is a bad move.
  • Just after that, Dottie calling Jimmy out for his drunkenness and lack of management.
    Jimmy: Hey! Who is the goddamn manager here, I am!
    Dottie: Then act like it, you big lush!
• After hearing that the league is in danger of folding because of a lack of interest, Dottie notices some bored reporters sitting behind the bullpen and goes into a split to catch a pop fly over her head. The reporters immediately jump up and start snapping photos while a stunned Racine player remarks "I can't do that." Her coach's flabbergasted reply? "Who can?"
  • What makes it even better is that Dottie's quick thinking gives the other players the idea to come up with publicity stunts and other tricks to boost the crowd's engagement and drum up support and sales. They also find a way to do so without relying on the sexist tropes that the earlier newsreels used; instead, the women showcase their beauty to catch people's eyes, then stun them with their genuine talent and skill.
• Jimmy's version of a pep talk. Real sports teams now use the speech as motivation:
  Jimmy: This is chickenshit, Dottie! If you want to go back to Oregon and make a hundred babies, great, I'm in no position to tell anyone how to live. But sneaking out like this, quitting, you'll regret it for the rest of your life. Baseball is what gets inside you. It's what lights you up. You can't deny that.
  Dottie: It just got too hard.
  Jimmy: It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.
• At tryouts, Doris tries to intimidate Dottie and Kit by throwing a ball at them. Dottie catches it in her bare hand without batting an eye.
  Mae: Okay, some of them are goin' home.
• In the final play of the game, Evelyn finally throws the ball to the cutoff woman like Jimmy kept telling her.