WWTBAM Bored

Baseball player. 84 years old.

Geena Davis kinda, sorta played her in "A League of Their Own".

She has a few paragraphs in the newest edition of Time.

The end of that movie always makes me sniffle.

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The end of that movie always makes me sniffle.

Me, too. But the scene where the girl is looking for her name on the roster and just stands there--it gets me every time. "You can't read, Honey, can you?" Or something like that.

ne1410s wrote:skoop:

The end of that movie always makes me sniffle.

Me, too. But the scene where the girl is looking for her name on the roster and just stands there--it gets me every time. "You can't read, Honey, can you?" Or something like that.

Helen Haley: [the girls are checking the team lists] Hi. Can you read, honey?
Shirley Baker: [crying] No.
Helen Haley: All right... what's your name?
Shirley Baker: Shirley Baker.
Helen Haley: Shirley Baker... Shirley Baker... okay, let's take a look.
[scans the lists]
Helen Haley: This is you! You're with us! You're a Rockford Peach!



But here's a fave of some:

Doris Murphy: Hey Mae, Mae, your date's here.
Mae Mordabito: How do I look?
Doris Murphy: Where'd you get that dress?
Mae Mordabito: Borrowed it.
Doris Murphy: It don't fit you, Mae, it's too tight.
Mae Mordabito: I don't plan on wearing it that long.
Doris Murphy: Ohh. I don't know why you get dressed at all.

I like this quote from her NY Times obituary.

Some four decades after she retired, Collins reflected on major league ballplayers and said she was none too impressed in light of her feats.

“I pitched and won both games of a doubleheader once pitching underhand,” she told Susan E. Johnson in “When Women Played Hardball.”

“I think I could have pitched a doubleheader overhand, too,” she said. “I don’t think it would be that hard. Nowadays, the men can’t do it, but hell, they can’t do nothin’.”