Hard is what makes it great

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Once he starts making peace with his past, Jimmy finds a renewed sense of purpose. I think a lot about how women often get asked to do thankless jobs men have already turned down or to step up in precarious situations where failure seems pretty likely. I think about how Penny Marshall, like so many female directors, spent most of her career on the Glass Cliff. More often than not, her film career is over. When everything just feels too hard.

But even if you are, you still sometimes strike out, or worse, drop the ball. One of my favorite moments in A League of Their Own comes toward the end, just before the World Series is set to begin. Dottie and her newly returned, wounded husband, Bob, are preparing to drive back home to Oregon when Jimmy confronts her about deserting the team when they need her most. Baseball is what gets inside you.

She tells him it just got too hard. The hard is what makes it great. Fans have argued and dissected this moment as passionately as a play from a real game.

Dottie has the ball in her glove ready to tag Kit as she comes charging at her at home plate. Dottie looks on from the field, a satisfied smile curling on her lips. It means her other sisters, her teammates, lose too. But Dottie understands salvaging her relationship with Kit is more important than winning a game.

Kit is free, and Dottie can go back to life in Oregon with her husband and a clear conscience. The version of the Women in Baseball exhibit that appears at the end of A League of Their Own is one that only a woman could dream up.

As the older AAGPBL players meander through their memories by way of museum memorabilia, the tears start to flow or in my case, simply increase to heaving sobs. Our hopes, our dreams, our bodies, our sacrifices are treated with respect and pride. Our work matters. Here is affirmation of it. What would it be like if women were given ample space to tell our stories?

Space to work and play and direct. No more Glass Cliffs, no more corners in the basement, but huge ball fields and sound stages and multiple museum floors. Something more than a league of our own. Your email address will not be published. With his encouragement, I re-gained my focus and finished the workout with drive and determination. Later in the day, I was struck by the parallel between what happened during that CompuTrainer workout and what Jimmy told Dottie during the movie.

I will remember what Jimmy told Dottie during the movie and what Joe was telling me by his actions during that fateful workout:. Oh My!! What a Ride. Becoming As leaders in the endurance services industry, Coach Suzy and the Experience Triathlon staff help athletes of all ages and abilities achieve success in training, racing and life.

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