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Rebecca A. Pocius '94, a Winthrop House resident and a catcher on the varsity softball team, died in a car accident on August...
Haskell said Pocius had a unique ability to make others feel positive. "As a catcher she's like the quarter-back. One of her jobs was to keep spirits up. She performed that task very well," he said...
When his star catcher threatens to quit the team, complaining that the game is too hard, manager Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks) snaps, "It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great...
Ordinarily, that would not be a cause for complaint. But the fact is that they have an extraordinary subject, and you can't help wishing they had been completely up to it. For that reluctant catcher is a woman named Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis). She is the star of the Rockford Peaches, which belongs to the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, an organization that remains one of the fascinating footnotes in the history of sports and feminism...
...Catcher] Shelby Marshall called a great game on the corners and the defense made the big plays," said Blaser. "Some days thing work out and sometimes they hit with runners on base...