Rockford Peaches
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Sep 8, 2026
BrennanHOST
And yes, it was the home of the Peaches, one of the teams from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1943 to 1954.
BrennanHOST
The Rockford Peaches won four championships during the league's existence, the most of any team, and they were absolutely stacked.
BrennanHOST
You had Dottie Hinson, basically the Jordan of the league, behind the plate.
BrennanHOST
She dipped out o- of the league early because her jerkoff husband, uh, the Lone Starr from Spaceballs, he didn't get killed in World War II, so he came and ruined the party, shit in the pudding.
RoHOST
bad.
AmandaHOST
This is what we watch on Halloween, okay? Any other time, we're wearing Rockford Peaches uniforms and saying there's no crying in baseball.
RoHOST
Fair enough.
RoHOST
But there's got to be something better.
Courtney CroninHOST
... selling your best player, maybe the greatest baseball player of all time, for $100,000 in cash, like, to finance a-
Michelle SmallmonHOST
Rockford Peaches pretty bad.
Courtney CroninHOST
Yeah, to finance a theater show, and then that gives the Yankees the start of their 27-title run.
Michelle SmallmonHOST
Unreal.
CodyHOST
Is that that
JoshHOST
movie? The Rockford Peaches.
JoshHOST
Oh, yeah.
CodyHOST
I've only seen.
Sarah SpainHOST
Plus, Kit wisely teases the idea that Dottie should do something a little magical before eventually settling into married life with her husband, who's away at war.
Sarah SpainHOST
Once they arrive in Illinois, the sisters compete for a spot on one of four teams, the Rockford Peaches, Racine Bells, Kenosha Comets, and South Bend Blue Sox.
Sarah SpainHOST
Dottie and Kit are both named to the Peaches roster, which is coached by struggling former home run hitting MLB star Jimmy Dugan.
Sarah SpainHOST
Kit is later traded to Racine, leading to the dramatic climax in which the two sisters go head-to-head in Game 7 of the World Series, with Kit scoring the winning run after Dottie drops the ball when they collide at home.
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Sarah SpainHOST
Thanks for listening, y'all.
Sarah SpainHOST
See you tomorrow.
Sarah SpainHOST
Good game, Rockford Peaches.
Sarah SpainHOST
Good game, Racine Bells.
Steve RiddleHOST
And, um, you know, I think in, uh, you know, they obviously weren't in like major cities.
Steve RiddleHOST
They were in, you know, a little smaller, uh, kind of smaller towns and um and obviously we focus most in this one on the um on the team that would actually be the most successful that's the uh the rockford peaches um that were based out of rockford illinois hence why they usually um they you know kind of base themselves with chicago but um but again, I thought it was kind of, again, interesting to tell this, um, this story because, um, you know, this is the film here on 92 when it was back in the, it was actually in 88, um, that the league was inducted into the baseball hall of fame.
Steve RiddleHOST
So, um, I think kind of based off that they decided to, um, you know, to kind of, you know, throw in some, uh, some extra, you know, extra love to the film.
Steve RiddleHOST
So I thought that was, uh, again, really good.
Caitlin BeattyHOST
And then we see them post the teams that say, like, who's going to make it and on which team.
Caitlin BeattyHOST
And Kit and Dottie are going to be Rockford Peaches.
Caitlin BeattyHOST
And Kit is so excited.
Caitlin BeattyHOST
Yeah.
Caitlin BeattyHOST
And he's also funding this
Angelina HerreraHOST
girls' baseball league.
Caitlin BeattyHOST
And he is like talking to Jimmy and he's like, I got you a job as a manager of the Rockford Peaches.
Caitlin BeattyHOST
Can you please, like, but are you sober right now? So we find out that like he's an alcoholic.
ConnorGUEST
You know this one? Chico's Bale Bonds from Bad News Bears.
ConnorGUEST
And then on this side, I got the Rockford Peaches.
ConnorGUEST
Oh, nice.
ConnorGUEST
Major League.
Dana GoldbergHOST
I never thought I'd see women's professional baseball exist in my lifetime, and it was completely worth the three-hour flight and road trip to get there.
Dana GoldbergHOST
I kept the theme going from the week before by wearing a Rockford Peaches shirt with Rosie O'Donnell's number 22 from A League of Their Own."
Allison GillHOST
Oh.
Dana GoldbergHOST
"My non-lesbian travel, a wildly last-minute decision, was to travel to Seattle to see my dad for the first time in 25 years."
Stephanie WeberHOST
and Pepper Pear, who was a catcher known for her tough attitude and strong arm.
Stephanie WeberHOST
Neither of them played for the Rockford Peaches, which was a real team, and the team that is in the movie.
Stephanie WeberHOST
The story is very cool, and a lot is left out of the movie, so let's take a quick side quest, shall we? Side quest.
Stephanie WeberHOST
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was a professional league in the 40s and 50s.
Stephanie WeberHOST
Women from all over the country played, but most of the professional teams were in the Midwest, with the Rockford Peaches from Rockford, Illinois being the best-known champions.
Stephanie WeberHOST
The league was really popular in the late 40s, especially with hundreds of thousands of spectators cheering them on.
Stephanie WeberHOST
At the height of the league's popularity in 1948, there were about 15 professional teams, including the Racine Bells, the Chicago Colleens, the Kenosha Comets, South Bend Blue Sox, the Grand Rapids Chicks, the Fort Wayne Daisies, the Springfield Sallies, and the Kalamazoo Lassies, who were the final champions of the league.
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