A League of Their Own.A League of Their Own (Columbia Pictures, 1992). There are two coaches in Penny Marshall's movie about the little-known All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League. Former home-run king Jimmy Duggan (Tom Hanks Noun 1. Tom Hanks - United States film actor (born in 1956) Hanks, Thomas J. Hanks ) is the team's official coach, but he's more interested in booze Booze sold cheap whiskey in a log-cabin bottle. [Am. Hist.: Espy, 152–153] See : Drunkenness than baseball. Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis (born January 21 1956) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American actress and former fashion model. Biography Early life ), the league's best player, takes up the slack 1. (operating system) slack - Internal fragmentation. Space allocated to a disk file but not actually used to store useful information. 2. (jargon) slack . Jimmy screams and intimidates to get the best from his players, while Dottie builds on their strengths and encourages them with kind words. In time the two work out their bad coach-good coach act and pull together in a way that's useful for the whole team. *** 1/2 |
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