Baseball Girls

This attribute docudrama utilizes animation, archival stills and live-action video footage to information the background of females’s participation in the largely male-dominated world of baseball as well as softball. Zany and caring, it includes 7-year-olds learning the guidelines and abilities of the game and 50-year-olds hitting residence runs, from the early days of the Bloomer Girls to the heyday of the Colorado Silver Bullets.

For more history information on this movie, visit the NFB.ca blog site: http://blog.nfb.ca/blog/2010/09/03/a-woman-traditional-roles-baseball/

Directed by Lois Siegel – 1995