Baseball Girls
Directed by Lois Siegel
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©Photo by
Lois Siegel
Michele Granger
Pitcher
From 7-year-olds playing baseball,
learning the rules of the game, to 60-year-olds playing slo-pitch
softball, BASEBALL GIRLS explores the private and professional lives of
women obsessed with the sport they love. Using animation, archival
stills and live-action footage, this zany and affectionate feature documentary
details the history of women's participation in the largely male-dominated
world of baseball and softball.
"Smart, strong and snappy, much like its subjects."
Eye Magazine
©Photo by
Lois Siegel
Pelham Sportaculars
Fairfax, Virginia
National Capital Senior Softball Classic, Runner-Up, Women's Division
Representing Canada
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Response
"Baseball Girls is a winner"
Toronto
Star
"Remember, Diamonds are a girls' best friend"
Toronto Sun
"A zany, action -packed documentary"
The Gazette
Montreal
"A well-made, engaging documentary about women, both past and present,
playing baseball." Hollywood Reporter
"Penetrating and altogether entertaining.. focusing on women
who live
and breathe the game of baseball."
Take One Magazine
Toronto
Watched it tonight. Its a fine piece of work.
Sensitive, whimsical, serious ...and great music.
Good work. Holds up well 15 years later.
Barry Stone
Film Director, Cinematographer
Oakland, California
DVD Now Available
for purchase
Baseball Girls
Forget everything you think you know about
baseball.
From the early days of the Bloomer Girls to today's Colorado Silver
Bullets,
"Baseball Girls" features something new and different about
women who love the sport.
- ID NO.
- 153C9195112
- Duration:
- 80 min 45 s
Producer: Silva Basmajian
Canadian residents can order directly from the
NFB
or call 1-800-267-7710.
In the U.S. call 1-800-542-2164.
The film is also available through the
Ottawa Public Library, Canada.
and on
YouTube
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National Film Board of Canada
Front Row: Hans Oomes, Barry Perles, Lois Siegel, Alyna Herscovici, Rene
Daigle
Back Row: Howie Bokser, Dawn Nichol, André Luc Dupont |
Awards:
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1996 Athens International Film and Video
Festival (Athens, Ohio). Film Documentary category. |
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1996 "Targa Citta' Di Palermo" at the International
SportsFilm Festival (Palermo, Italy) "for the novelty of the
point of view through which the history of the female role in
American baseball has been reconstructed."
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Selected as one of the
Best Documentaries in Canadian Cinema for 1996 by "Take One"
film magazine: Toronto Film Critics' Poll.
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National Educational Media Network
Winner
of a Bronze Apple Award, 1998 |
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Courtesy of
Glenbow Archives
Calgary, Alberta
Photographs
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Baseball Girls on TV
Oxygen, the new women's TV
network in the States, purchased BASEBALL
GIRLS
produced by The National Film Board of Canada
and directed by Lois Siegel.
The film aired on the network
2000-2002.
Oxygen is partially owned by Oprah
Winfrey.
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©Photo by
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Ila Borders
First woman to win a men's professional
baseball game
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Spectacular
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Colorado
Silver Bullets
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Light Years Photographs
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Julie Croteau
In 2004 Croteau was selected as a coach
for the U.S. Women's National team.
They captured Gold at the 2004
Women's World Cup of Baseball in Edmonton.
In 2006, Croteau served as manager
of the U.S. Women’s National Team
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Lady in the Locker Room
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Players in Pigtails
by
Shana Corey,
Rebecca Gibbon
Fiction
Katie loves baseball. She becomes the hero of the All-American Girls
Professional Baseball League, created by Chicago Cubs owner Phillip Wrigley
when many male professional players were away fighting in World War II.
This story is inspired by the movie
"A League of Their Own."
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