‘A League of Their Own’ Stars Abbi Jacobson and More Answer All Your Questions About the Homerun of a Series

The girls of summer are bringing back the love of the game in the new Prime Video series A League of Their Own, inspired by the classic 1992 Penny Marshall film.

The story is about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League that sprang up in the Midwest when the stock of athletic young men was depleted during World War II.

The new series encompasses the spirit and expands on the charming comedy movie starring Geena Davis, Madonna, Tom Hanks, Rosie O’Donnell and Lori Petty. The new series begins streaming all eight episodes on Prime Video on Friday, Aug. 12.

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The Prime Video series stars Abbi Jacobson, Chante Adams, D’Arcy Carden, and Roberta Colindrez, and was co-created by Jacobson and Will Graham.

Although the famous line from the movie and the series (“There's no crying in baseball!") still rings true, the 2022 version of the baseball story is delivered with a lot of heart.

Keep reading for everything we need to know about season 1 of A League of Their Own that is knocking it out of the park.

Is there A League of Their Own trailer?

The trailer for A League of Their Own Season 1 shows Jacobson rushing onto a train for tryouts, as well as players of color encountering racism from white male coaches claiming they aren't "all-American" enough. We also see the sexism female players faced at the time, with suggestions to shorten their skirts and wear more makeup during games.

Was A League of Their Own a true story?

Both the movie and the series used the actual lives of the female ball players as a starting point to expand the heart-warming and bittersweet stories of their lives. The series is based on the actual All-American Girl Professional Baseball League that started to keep America’s favorite pastime alive when the boys and men went off to serve during World War II.

How is the movie A League of Their Own similar to the new Prime Video series?

Like the movie, the new series A League of Their Own is still about the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League that debuted during World War II. This version of the story features new characters and storylines and explores topics including racism, sexism, relationships, sexuality, and a lot more.

Where can I watch A League of Their Own?

A League of Their Own the series streams exclusively on Prime Video. All eight episodes of Season 1 will premiere on Aug. 12, 2022.

Who is the black lady in A League of Their Own?

Some 30 years ago in the film A League of Their Own, the main cast of the film is all white, a reflection of the fact that like men’s baseball in the early 1940s, the girls league was segregated. However, there is a scene that acknowledges the injustice of excluding women of color from the league. Midway through the film a wild ball lands on the sidelines and Dottie (Geena Davis) calls for one of the African-American women standing nearby to throw it back. The woman throws it to Ellen Sue—who's farther away from her than Dottie—instead, and throws the ball so hard that Ellen Sue's hand hurts when she catches it.

Because the role was a non-speaking one (which made it all the more powerful, even in its brevity), identifying the actress was difficult. However, it is believed to be DeLisa Chinn-Tyler of Indiana, a real-life softball legend.

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Does Prime Video have A League of Their Own?

The prime video series, A League of Their Own is exclusively streaming on Prime Video. The movie is also included in Amazon Prime Video subscriptions if you want to get a refresher before the show!

Is A League of Their Own on Netflix?

A League of Their Own is not available on Netflix. It streams only on Prime Video.

What channel is the new A League of Their Own on?

The new A League of Their Own is not on any broadcast or cable channels. It is available exclusively on Amazon's Prime Video platform.

Where can I watch A League of Their Own Season 1?

You can watch A League of Their Own Season 1 on Amazon Prime Video.

Who is in the cast of the new series, A League of Their Own?

Abbi Jacobson as Carson Shaw

Best known for co-creating and co-starring in the Comedy Central series Broad City, Abbi Jacobson studied fine arts and video production at the Maryland Institute College of Art and studied stand-up comedy for one year with poet Jeremy Sigler.

Jacobson has voiced roles including Kate Michell in The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Nya in The Lego Ninjago Movie, and Princess Bean in the series Disenchantment. She and William Graham co-created the 2022 Prime Video series A League of Their Own, in which she also stars as a member of the Rockford Peaches, and later helps the girls bond as the team’s fearless leader.

“I feel extremely proud and excited to share these stories,” Jacobson exclusively tells Parade.com. “I think that goes for all the roles I had on this show. I feel a deep sense of responsibility and deep pride in sharing all of this history.”

Chanté Adams as Maxine 'Max' Chapman

Chanté Adams is best known for starring in the 2017 biopic Roxanne Roxanne, for which she received the Sundance Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Performance. Most recently, she starred opposite Michael B. Jordan in the emotional Denzel Washington film A Journal for Jordan, as well as films including Monsters and Men, Bad Hair and The Photograph.

The Detroit native began acting as a high school student. She received her bachelor’s from Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama and moved to New York to pursue her acting career.

Now she is starring in A League of Their Own as Maxine “Max” Chapman, a gifted African American baseball player in the early 1940s who fights relentlessly to get her shot with the All-Girls professional League and the Negro League. Her journey to conquer the impossible is an inspiring life lesson for all of us.

She also found her own inspiration by bonding with the girls in the new series.

“We did baseball camp together, we’ve done our dinners and all that stuff like that,” Adams exclusively tells Parade.com. “So we were able to build a camaraderie and our own team both on and off the screen.”

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D'Arcy Carden as Greta Gill

A charming actress with a gift for comedy, D’Arcy Carden portrays Greta, a ballplayer with a mind of her own who appears to have all the answers, but deep down has the same doubts as the rest of us. She takes being on the Peaches extremely seriously because, like many of her teammates, she yearns for more in her life.

She is also portraying Natalie Green in the third season of the critically-acclaimed series, Barry, for which she was nominated for a 2020 Screen Actors Guild Award. The show was recently renewed for a 4^th season.

Her breakout performance was as Janet in the NBC hit comedy A Good Place, with more appearances in Broad City, Inside Amy Schumer, Veep and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

The actors say they learned a great deal about themselves from this series. “I would say this solidified how much I love being on a team or an ensemble whether its sports or acting—it’s all I want,” Carden exclusively tells Parade.com. “The best part of it was each other, that we got to hold each other up and have each other’s backs. With the hard stuff and the fun stuff; it just made it so much richer.”

Melanie Field as Jo DeLuca

Melanie Field is an actress and singer who received a Master’s Degree from the Yale School of Drama in 2016. She is best known for her role as Heather Chandler in the TV adaptation of Heathers, Kaitlin in Florida Girls and as mommy blogger Sunrise in You. She was later cast as Bitsy Sussman in The Angel of Darkness, the sequel series of The Alienist.

In 2020, Field was cast in A League of Their Own as Jo, a hard-scrabble ball player with many layers.

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Field says that the baseball training she and the other actors went through was another high point of making the show. In fact, she used so much gusto during practice that she cracked a bat, something that was kept in the series.

“We were so lucky. We had the most amazing coaches,” Field exclusively tells Parade.com. “We had extremely top-notch girl ball players who were teaching us their skills. It was amazing!”

Roberta Colindrez as Lupe Garcia

Roberta Colindrez is a Mexican-born actress who was raised in Texas. She has broken ground in various roles on stage, film, and TV, by portraying characters whose bravery and unwavering sense of self have helped challenge traditional ideas of identity and heritage commonly found in the world of entertainment.

In A League of Their Own, she stars as Lupe Garcia, the tokenized bilingual Latin pitching sensation. Before that, she originated the role of Joan in the Tony-Award-winning musical Fun Home and will partner again with its author Alison Bechdel for the audible version of Dykes to Watch Out For.

Among the many aspects of the series that stood out for Colindrez was the meticulous attention to detail in the period costumes and sets.

“The show is truly beautiful; the sets were just outstanding and they knocked it out of the park with the costuming,” she exclusively tells Parade.com. “Honestly, nowadays when I’m on the subway I’m like, 'What have we done?' I wish that people dressed up the way that they used to.”

Additional members of the A League of Their Own cast include:

Priscilla Delgado as Esti

Gbemisola Ikumelo as Clance

Kelly McCormack as Jess

Kate Berlant as Shirley

Nick Offerman as Casey 'Dove' Porter

Dale Dickey as Beverly

Patrick J. Adams as Charlie

What did Will Graham do for A League of Their Own?

Will Graham directed and executive produced episodes of the Emmy and Golden-Globe-winning series Mozart in the Jungle, from Prime Video. He also wrote episodes of the comedy series Alpha House. One of the original founders of The Onion’s Onion News Network web series, he won a Peabody Award for his directing and executive producing work on the show.

The founder of Field Trip Productions in 2017, with former UTA Agent Hailey Wierengo, Graham is producing A League of Their Own, in which he is serving as co-creator and co-showrunner alongside Abbi Jacobson (Carson Shaw). He is looking forward to many other forthcoming series, including the Six with Hello Sunshine, also for Prime Video.

Like a proud parent waiting for his baby to take its first steps, Graham, who serves as co-creator, co-executive producer, writer, director and showrunner on A League of Their Own, is impatiently waiting for audiences to watch the series. “The show is about joy and the work that goes into joy,” he exclusively tells Parade.com. “It is also about the sacrifices you have to make to find your destiny, or to fall in love with the person that you want to fall in love with in a world that doesn’t necessarily want you to.”

He adds that “it’s a show that takes place in really dark times, yet it’s very joyful in an uncertain world. That’s something else I really hope that viewers can take away from this.”

Where was A League of Their Own filmed?

The series was filmed in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The pilot for the A League of Their Own series, however, was filmed in Los Angeles.

What is the A League of Their Own release date?

The full first season of A League of Their Own will drop on Amazon's Prime Video platform on Aug. 12, 2022.

How many episodes are there in  Season 1 of A League of Their Own?

There are a total of eight episodes in Season 1 of A League of Their Own.

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