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Baseball Girls is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Lois Siegel and released in 1995.Bill Brownstein, "Picking up ball Burns dropped; Montreal director chronicles role of women in baseball". Montreal Gazette, March 21, 1990. The film centres on women's baseball, profiling the history and culture of the sport from the days of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League through to the modern day, through a blend of animation, still photography and live action footage.Ingrid Randoja, "The girls of summer: Lois Siegel's Baseball Girls". Take One, Vol. 4, Iss. 10, (Winter 1996): 30-33.
Faye Dancer, who had been a player in the All-American Girls league, served as a creative consultant on the film.Ted Shaw, "After years of being struck out by history Baseball Girls sets the record straight". Calgary Herald, July 1, 1997.
The film faced some criticism for virtually ignoring the popularity of the sport among , with Siegel stating that she had contacted a lesbian baseball team to take part in the film, who declined due to the team members' concerns about being too publicly visible; conversely, however, it received praise for including the stories of some significant African-American players in the history of women's baseball, an element that A League of Their Own had downplayed.Ted Shaw, "A look inside the small screen". Windsor Star, June 27, 1997.
It was a finalist for best documentary in the 1996 Toronto Film Critics Poll."The 2nd Annual Toronto Film Critics' Poll". Take One, Winter 1997.
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Categories: 1995 Films, Canadian Sports Documentary Films, Canadian Baseball Films, English-language Canadian Films, 1990s English-language Films, 1990s Canadian Films, National Film Board Of Canada Documentaries, Documentary Films About Baseball, Documentary Films About Women's Sports, English-language Documentary Films, Women's Baseball
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