There’s a famous scene in Penny Marshall’s “A League of Their Own” movie: a Black woman, in a dress and hat, picks up a loose ball in foul territory and whips it past Geena Davis’ Dottie right into the waiting glove of Ellen Sue.
She nods, but doesn’t speak. That’s all she gets. She’s not even listed in the credits (local media identified her last year as Delisa Chinn-Tyler). One throw and she was gone.
For the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the women’s league founded while the men were fighting World War II, Black women were just as invisible. But they were still there. So in Prime Video’s new “League of Their Own” series, which premiered Friday, co-creators Abbi Jacobson and Will Graham made sure that those same Black women finally got their time on the diamond.
