In A League of Their Own, Abbi Jacobson and the rest of the cast are ready to take the show to new heights. Today, Jacobson shared a poster of the cast of her upcoming reworking of the 1992 comedy classic with her Instagram followers. With just four baseball emojis and the film’s August 12 release date in the description, the actress sparked a positive response in the comments section. Both Jacobson and Chanté Adams are clearly in command on the poster. Jacobson’s Carson Shaw and Adams’ Max will be central to the plot, which is set in the fictional All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in Rockford, Illinois.
The series’ minor characters, Greta (D’Arcy Carden) and Clance (Gbemisola Ikumelo) are depicted in the poster’s centre, directly below Jacobson and Adams. Roberta Colindrez plays Lupe; Kelly McCormack plays Jess; Melanie Field plays Jo Deluca; Kate Berlant plays Shirley Cohen; Priscilla Delgado plays Esti González; and Molly Ephraim plays Maybelle Fox. At the bottom of the list are the other Rockford Peaches. Max’s parents, Edgar (Alex Désert) and Toni (Saidah Arrika Ekulona) stand in the centre of the group. Nick Offerman, who will portray Casey “Dove” Porter, the team’s manager, and Rosie O’Donnell, a guest actor and a part of the original film’s cast, are both absent from the photo.
If you’re a longtime follower of the series, you may be a little perplexed to learn that Vi is a new character who did not feature in the film. There will be a new narrative to tell about the Rockford Peaches even if its name is derived from an old one. Attendees will be taken back to 1943, a time during World War II when the majority of American men were serving their country’s allies on the battlefield. A women’s baseball league was established to promote morale and maintain a long-cherished American tradition.
White women from all over the country applied to play on the league’s touring teams. We’ll follow the imaginary individuals as they give their all to the sport while also dealing with prejudice (no Black women were permitted to join the league) and beginning to reexamine long-held sexuality views. An exciting first glimpse at the action, humour and drama that we can expect to see unfold when A League of Their Own premieres on Prime Video on August 12th was released today with the series’ debut trailer.