Did Dottie Drop the Ball On Purpose?: Solving the Only Cinematic Mystery That Matters
The time has come…to debate what is probably the most important question of an old millennial’s life: Did Dottie Hinson drop the ball on purpose at the end of A League of Their Own in order to let her sister shine?
Lori Petty, who played Kit, the younger sister to Geena Davis’s Dottie, says:
I mean this from my heart — obviously, I smashed her in half and she dropped the ball. Dottie’s such a competitor she would not drop the ball on purpose. Can you imagine giving up the World Series? I don’t even understand that.
In a 25th anniversary oral history, Geena Davis said:
I’ll say two things about that. No. 1: I know the answer. Because it was me, of course, I know the answer. And No. 2: No, I’m not going to answer that question.
I never have, and I never will.
Some discussion of this in a previous post about the movie.
Before there was a movie, there was a 1987 documentary with the same title featuring the women of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League.
D’Arcy Carden and Abbi Jacobson are working on A League of Their Own series at Amazon. Rosie O’Donnell’s playing a bartender at a local gay bar, and Nick Offerman is playing coach Casey “Dove” Porter.