Series Review: ‘A League of Their Own’ Chronicles Life for LGBTQ Women in the 1940s.

A worn baseball glove with a baseball sits on a canvas bag next to a metal camping cup on grass, evoking the adventurous spirit of 1940s "A League of Their Own" and the camaraderie among LGBTQ women players.

Lauren Gutterman, alumni fellow (2013-15) and associate professor of American studies at the University of Texas at Austin, reviews the Amazon series reboot of the 1992 film “A League of Their Own,” about the Rockford Peaches, one of 15 teams in the World War II-era All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Gutterman discusses how the series centers queerness and the racism that structured the league and era in ways the original film did not. Read more about the series.