Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 228: A League of Their Own

Released 7 September 2022

For this episode, we watched A League of Their Own, written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel from a story by Kelly Candaele and Kim Wilson. Penny Marshall directed and the cast includes Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Rosie O’Donnell, Tom Hanks and Madonna. It was made for a budget of $40 million and it took $132 million at the box office. It received no Oscar nominations and it has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 81%.

• A League of Their Own on Amazon Prime https://youtu.be/H8qMhtkB18k
• Bosom Buddies https://youtu.be/K2gCfwILUVc
• Mazes and Monsters https://youtu.be/fVR_gyUpB0I
• Tom Hanks as Woody https://youtu.be/73fbb4O5dpU
• Hanks vs Ross https://youtu.be/z_9BcMI_xbg?t=525
• https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/world-news/957108/tom-hanks-rita-wilson-and-a-qanon-conspiracy-theory
• David S Pumpkins https://youtu.be/rS00xWnqwvI
• Rap Song https://youtu.be/ATFy2YLT504
• Black Jeopardy https://youtu.be/O7VaXlMvAvk
• That Thing You Do https://youtu.be/YRvWtCYTaCU
• Desert Island Discs https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b079m78n
• The Case Against 8 https://youtu.be/0TKTVbUEV-c
• A League of Their Own (nineties sitcom) https://youtu.be/WNwuiu0QV0s
• The Geena Davis Institute https://seejane.org

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