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A League of Their Own | Season 1 Episode 4 Recap with Amy McCann
Host Amanda Costner and guest host, professional baseball player Amy McCann dive into episode four of Amazon Prime's A League of Their Own. Amy goes into personal detail about what it was like growing up in Australia as a girl who wants to play baseball, finding the characters of A League of Their Own relatable in their desire to play ball as well as their struggle to find a way to play. Amy gives a unique point of view--she's lived the experience the series is portraying, in every way, down to her actually meeting and falling in love with her wife while they were playing baseball together.
How accurate is the ball playing on the field? How good of a job are the actors in this show doing at pretending to be professional baseball players? Amy answers all of these questions and more. Not only that, but Amy has studied a lot about the history of women in baseball, she points out that the first night game at Wrigley Field was actually played by women. Amanda jokes that maybe Amy has been feeding the A League of Their Own writer's room her personal stories, they sound so similar.
Episode four dives into Clance and Guy's struggle to come to terms with him being drafted to go to war. Max fights for her right to play on the Screws baseball team, which Amy and Amanda have different interpretations of. Amy thinks Max just wasn't quite ready for the big tryout. Amanda thinks it was a whiff, she choked. Both acknowledge there were psychological elements at play. Gretson have their big hookup moment in episode 4. Amy and Amanda have a lot of fun discussing their relationship and how both characters are progressing in the season.
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