Baseball Girls


1h 22m 1995

Brief Synopsis

A look at women who have been playing baseball and softball for more than one hundred hard-hitting years. The survey explores women's long and varied involvement with the sport: from seven-year-olds just learning the game, to 50-year-olds belting out home runs; from the first women's professional te

Film Details

Genre
Documentary
Sports
Release Date
1995
Production Company
National Film Board Of Canada; National Film Board Of Canada
Location
Canada

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 22m

Synopsis

A look at women who have been playing baseball and softball for more than one hundred hard-hitting years. The survey explores women's long and varied involvement with the sport: from seven-year-olds just learning the game, to 50-year-olds belting out home runs; from the first women's professional team--the popular Bloomer Girls of the early 1900s--to today's pro baseball Colorado Silver Bullets.

Film Details

Genre
Documentary
Sports
Release Date
1995
Production Company
National Film Board Of Canada; National Film Board Of Canada
Location
Canada

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 22m

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Trivia

Miscellaneous Notes

Released in United States 1996

Released in United States August 1995

Shown at 1996 Athens International Film Festival.

Shown at Montreal World Film Festival August 1995.

Shown at Olympic Village Games in Atlanta, Georgia July 19 - August 4, 1996.

Released in United States 1996 (Shown at 1996 Athens International Film Festival.)

Recipient of an award at 1996 Athens Interntaional Film and Video Festival.

Released in United States 1996 (Shown at Olympic Village Games in Atlanta, Georgia July 19 - August 4, 1996.)

Released in United States August 1995 (Shown at Montreal World Film Festival August 1995.)