Amazon Prime’s remake of A League of Their Own represents everything wrong with the radical, left-wing, woke propaganda that accompanies television programs today. This show is loosely based on the 1992 hit film of the same name, but that is where the similarities mostly end. Amazon’s version is nothing more than a woke soap opera about who can feel the most oppressed in 1940s America: closeted lesbians, or black women baseball players?
The original film was a fictionalized story about the mostly forgotten All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, an all-female baseball league that started during World War II. The beloved movie starred Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna, and Rosie O’Donnell, among others. It made famous the saying, “There’s no crying in baseball,” and is considered one of the greatest sports movies of all time.
The 2022 version is not like that. It is more about a woman coming to terms with her homosexuality than it is about baseball. The sport merely acts as a backdrop so the plot can focus on two main stories: white women leaving their husbands to have scandalous affairs with other women playing in the baseball league, and black women who cannot play in the league because of racial discrimination.
Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson, the creators of the remake, stated it was important to have representation. But rather than make a show representing empowered black female baseball players, who actually played baseball in the Negro Leagues, the woke minds behind the new version of A League of Their Own have performed a bait-and-switch. They are capitalizing on name recognition from the original movie but abandoning its story and even its true-to-life subject matter for fictional characters and plots to advance left-wing propaganda and woke narratives.
They could have told the inspirational and remarkable stories of Toni Stone, Connie Morgan, or Mamie “Peanut” Johnson, the first black women to play professional baseball. Their feats were great, and their stories are relatively unknown. This could have been a series that told the little-known story of achievement by black women in the U.S. who overcame the strife of segregation and racism to be pioneers for women and civil rights.
But no, the Left is about representing black people until it comes time to actually representing them. Stone, Morgan, and Johnson were all phenomenal athletes whose stories deserve recognition. The writers opt for a dull fictional story about black women who couldn’t play in a baseball league than the empowering story of black women who did play professional baseball.
As for the lesbianism — well, that’s titillating, so obviously they’re not going to pass up a chance to do that.
In A League of Their Own, victimhood supersedes actual accomplishment, and left-wing ideology supersedes the creation of a credible or even plausible plot. Do you really want to watch tedious 21st-century social justice tropes shoe-horned into 1940s American culture? The events in Netflix’s Stranger Things are far more realistic.
