"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great." Tom Hanks (as Jimmy Dugan)
Girl's baseball. Girl's baseball. A girl's baseball movie. Really?
Yes, really.
Other than the mostly historic portrayal of the All American Girl's Baseball League in this film, the important part of the movie is the reminder that baseball, like life, is not easy.
Baseball is exceptional for teaching lessons in overcoming adversity and perhaps as a firefighter/paramedic by education and profession I identify with the idea of being up against all odds. The old line is true, great hitters fail sixty-five to seventy percent of the time and they are still applauded for their success the rest of the time. As a paramedic I stopped counting a long time ago those victims who I knew had little chance because the stats were stacked against them.
Similarly, who said life was going to be easy. You graduate high school, go to college, party it up, pay your dues and do your classes. Now you have a piece of paper saying graduate. Life still isn't easy. Again, no one said life would be easy, but that is what gives it meaning and makes it rich...not the easy times, but the ones your remember overcoming.
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