Here is a story I worked on when I was 19. This was my favorite movie when I was 14. I used to do B&J stories but got tired of the movie finally so I am focusing on this movie which I am stuck on again. So I left my B&J stories unfinished that I had posted here.

I love Kit (not that kind of love). She is one of my favorite characters in the movie. I find her to be cute; her looks, her frowns, her pigtails, and she looks cute in her uniform.

Lot of people find her to be a brat and a big baby so I decided to write about it. She is just jealous of her sister because she suffers from inferior complex and it's sister rivalry. Hey I blame her parents. It's obvious in the movie Dottie and kit are treated different. Dottie gets better treatment and Kit is treated less. She isn't as valued. Now if they treated their daughters equally, maybe Kit wouldn't be as jealous and be suffering with inferior complex. Plus she is in her shadow.

Baby in the League

Chapter 1

The Beginning

It was the first baseball season for the girls. Walter Harvey decided to start a girl's baseball league because the men were over seas fighting in the war so they lacked ball players. So he had scouts go out to look for ball players and they took them and brought them to Chicago to try out. Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller came all the way from Oregon. Dottie originally didn't want to come because she was married, plus the scout, Ernie Capadino, didn't want Kit because she couldn't hit the ball but Dottie stood up for her by telling him she was very good and she was a pitcher so Ernie decided she could come if Dottie came. Kit had to convince her to come so she did. She did it for Kit because she wanted to play so bad. When they took the train to Chicago the next day, they stopped in Fort Collins, Colorado to look at another girl and Ernie didn't want her either because she wasn't pretty even though she was very good with hitting. So Dottie and Kit had to make Ernie change his mind about Marla Hooch, the girl, to come by putting down their suitcases. Ernie told them to pick them up but they didn't. They just stood there. Kit had her hands on her hips frowning, while Dottie stood with her arms folded, staring at him. Marla's father had to convince him too by telling him it was his fault that his daughter was a tomboy because he raised her like a little boy and that he didn't know any better so Ernie let her come. He took them to Chicago and brought them to the Harvey Field and they tried out with other hundred girls. Only sixty four of them made the team and the rest got train tickets home. Marla, Kit, and Dottie all were on the same team. They were on the Rockford Peaches, one of the four teams in the league. The others were Kenosha, Racine, and South Bend.

The other girls who made the team and that were also the Rockford Peaches:

Ellen Sue Gotlander

Connie Calhoun

Mae Mordabito

Alice Gaspers

Betty Horn

Marla Hooch

Marbleann Wilkenson

Helen Haley

Evelyn Gardner

Beverly Dixon

Doris Murphy

Shirley Baker

Linda Babbitt

Elizabeth Dalton

Everyone who made the team had to take classes at charm and beauty school. They had to learn how to be a lady such as learning how to eat properly, dress, talk, what kind of make up to wear, etc. They were even given Charm School Guides but the Peaches did not follow the rules. They still used bad language and Mae and a few other team mates smoked cigarettes, and they still used poor grammar.

The league games began May thirtieth. The first game was held in Rockford. The Peaches played against South Bend and the Kenosha Comets played in Racine against the Belles. The league would run to the first of September. The first game in Rockford, there weren't very many people there watching. The Peaches were getting ready in their locker room when Jimmy Dugan (their manager) came in and startled everyone. He slumped to the sink as some of the Peaches tried introducing themselves but he ignored them all. Jimmy was an alcoholic retired baseball player. He hurt his knee when he fell out of the hotel window from his room because of a fire he started so he was unable to keep playing. The job was offered to him to manage a girl's baseball team and he took the job because he wanted the money. He was always drunk and he chewed tobacco. He was an over weight person but he wasn't fat and he didn't shave every day so he always had short facial hair on his face which didn't make him look good. He looked like shit, Dottie would say.

When he got to the sink, he opened his pants and started to pee. Kit was shocked and so were the other girls, even the chaperon. None of them knew what to do so Mae turned it into a game. She took the watch from Ellen Sue and she began to time him. He peed for over a minute and then he started to walk out of the locker room. Betty gave him her husband's baseball card for him to sign but he tore it up in four pieces and left the locker room not giving his team the line up so Dottie had to do it. When the team went out in the field, they were laughed at and one guy mocked them by saying girls couldn't play ball and as the announcer was introducing the Peaches, Ellen Sue threw the ball hard and hit the guy in the stands and he fell down and people laughed at him making a fool of himself.

"It slipped," Ellen Sue told Kit when she looked at her. Kit turned and looked back at the stands as she was grinning. All the Peaches liked Ellen Sue's throw and it got the guy to shut up. The Blue Sox (South Bend) heard about it when they came out in the field too and they also found it funny.

The game was quiet as it went on. When Dottie hit the ball far out in the field, the people stood up and watched the ball sail in the air gasping and it went over the fence. They never seen a girl hit the ball so far out and the Peaches had won the game. Jimmy didn't watch the game. He sat in the dugout chewing and scratching his balls. He even did that in the next game too and the game after that. Dottie had to do the management of the team. She did the line ups and she told the players how to swing and when to slide or run or stay on the base. Kit was jealous of her sister. Everyone on the team liked her better than they did to her. Kit has always been jealous of her sister. People liked her more and their parents seemed like her more too. Mr. Keller always called Kit 'Dottie's sister,' when he introduced his daughters to people. He never said her name and the people never asked her what her name was. Dottie also played better than Kit. She hit home runs, and she was good at catching balls and running from one base to another. Kit was good too at playing but she wasn't good enough. She couldn't hit the ball far out as Dottie and she always struck out because she would swing at the high ones and she could never hit them. Dottie always nagged her to not swing at them but she still swung at them anyway because she liked them. She also blamed everything on her sister. If there was a problem, she assumed it was her sister that had something to do with it so they would get in typical sibling fights. Dottie didn't like Kit's behavior but she still loved her because she was her sister and she always stood up for her like she did to Ernie Capadino and she also took care of her. Dottie always put up with her bratty behavior. But in the league, things were going to change.