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'League of Their Own' TV series: Why it's not the 'remake' you expect - USA TODAY

'League of Their Own' TV series: Why it's not the 'remake' you expect - USA TODAY

Aug 14, 2022 1 min, 25 secs

It's a short yet stirring moment that left an impact on Chanté Adams, who co-stars in Amazon's TV adaptation of "League" (streaming Friday on Prime Video), which is set in the world of women's professional baseball in the 1940s. .

"I watched the movie as a kid and it was pretty iconic, because it was a sports movie led by women," Adams says.

Co-created by Abbi Jacobson (Comedy Central's "Broad City") and Will Graham (Amazon's "Mozart in the Jungle"), the eight-episode season charts the formation of Illinois' Rockford Peaches, a real-life team in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

Season 1 is split between two main storylines: Carson (Jacobson), a white, married housewife who runs away from her small Idaho town in hopes of joining the Peaches, and Max (Adams), a young Black woman who defies her strictly religious mother (Saidah Ekulona) as she pursues her baseball dreams.

Adams, 27, says she could relate to Max as "a Black woman trying to work her way through a white, male-dominated field." Through her research, she learned about trailblazing Black women ballplayers including Toni Stone, Connie Morgan and Mamie Johnson – the latter of whom attempted to try out for the AAGPBL in 1951, but was "told to go home because she was Black." .

But when they sat me down, they were like, 'No, this is about a generation of women playing baseball and Black women were there.' To bring those stories to light has been such an honor." 

Discovering the true history was similarly eye-opening for Jacobson, 38, who grew up watching the "League" movie but says she never clocked its "queer undertones" until much later

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