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“There is no crying in baseball.” Tom Hanks yelled this famous line while playing Jimmy Dugan in the movie A League of Their Own. This movie follows the fictional characters of Dotty and Kit Hinson as they play in the brand-new All-American Women’s League during World War II. This movie showcases the sexism that ran rampant throughout American society for most of America’s history. In a time when women’s roles were starting to be challenged, the women’s league started to being things to a head. The league challenged some of the sexist ideas that many people had and was one of the first of many breakthroughs in women’s liberation. One of the examples about the sexism that was prevalent during the 1940s is that men get praised for the accomplishments
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