If you are ever scrolling through Netflix having binge watched all of your favorite T.V. shows and are left with nothing to watch you should check out the movie “A League of Their Own”.

The 1992 film took place at the start of World War II. A group of women made the first All-American Girls Professional Baseball League because so many men were getting drafted for war. The movie focused on the competitive sisters Dottie and Kit who joined one of the baseball teams. I really liked these characters and how they are your typical sisters, but their relationship gets affected. You realize Dottie is a lot better at baseball than Kit, at the beginning when Dottie got recruited but her sister didn’t and she had to beg to get her sister in.

I enjoyed how this movie wasn’t just fun but it had lessons in it, Kit shows you how things do come easier for other people but she still worked hard to earn her place. You see a lot of emotion from different woman dealing with the effects of the war, having to deal with their family, or dealing with the competitive reality of playing baseball at this time. The woman were getting news on if their husbands or relatives have died in the war and Dottie’s husband was a man drafted, luckily he survived but in that moment I felt almost as she did.

This was fun to watch, showing the things the woman went through and seeing them progress from being unnoticed to famous. Being based on a true story, it showed the reality that women faced during this time, not as respected as men, and you could feel the emotions of joy when together then the fear they had of their drunken coach.

Although much of the movie was discredited in an ESPN article “Reel Life: ‘A League of Their Own’” that revealed some of these faults, like former baseball player Doris Sams said, “I thought it was about 30 percent truth and 70 percent Hollywood,” it also points out multiple other mistakes.

The movie itself has gotten good ratings. It got 7.2 out of 10 on IMDb, 77 percent liked it on Rotten Tomato and 67% on Metacritic. Although, it had some incorrect facts in it I still thought it was entertaining to watch. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys sports, history, and comedy.