One of the most beloved sports movies of the '90s, A League of Their Own dramatized the
true story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League formed during World War II.
Some of the movie's stars have gone on to have prolific careers, while others have stepped
back from the limelight.
Let's take a look at what the Rockford Peaches and the rest of the cast are up to today.
As the star of A League of Their Own, Davis
was the main event in memorable moments like this one — but that was just one stop on
her long and successful career in Hollywood.
After playing everything from an international assassin to the President of the United States,
Davis has most recently been seen on Fox's The Exorcist television series and in the
sci-fi flick Marjorie Prime.
In 2015, Davis founded the Bentonville Film Festival, a celebration of diverse filmmakers.
At the festival's 2017 edition, she hosted a softball game celebrating the 25th anniversary
of A League of Their Own that brought together much of the original cast and some real-life
veterans of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League.
While it's perhaps not his most famous role,
Hanks delivered a great performance and some terrific lines as manager Jimmy Dugan, including
this oft-quoted gem: "There's no crying in baseball!"
Following A League of Their Own, Hanks' star continued to rise, with back-to-back Academy
Awards for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump.
He continued to score commercial and critical acclaim with the Toy Story franchise, Saving
Private Ryan, Cast Away, and The Da Vinci Code franchise.
Most recently, Hanks starred in the biographical drama Sully and appeared opposite Emma Watson
in the technological thriller The Circle.
Befitting his position as America's best and most favorite person, in 2016 Hanks was presented
with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor.
The other half of A League of Their Own's
sibling rivalry, Lori Petty is probably still best known for playing Kit Keller, who clashed
with her sister Dottie both on and off the field.
But that wasn't the end of her Hollywood story.
She's gone on to appear in dozens of films, playing the title role in 1995's Tank Girl,
and popping up in guest roles on primetime TV.
Most recently, Petty has played the role of paranoid-schizophrenic inmate Lolly Whitehill
in Orange Is the New Black since 2014.
Though she's best known as a pop mega-star,
Madonna made one of her periodic detours into film here in the role of "All the Way" Mae,
the Rockford Peaches center fielder who knows how to draw a crowd.
"What if at a key moment in the game, my uniform bursts open, and whoops, my bosoms come flying
out?"
Following her role in A League of Their Own, Madonna stuck around Hollywood long enough
to film Die Another Day and Evita — earning a Golden Globe Award for the latter in 1997.
She's also put out eight full-length albums since her days on the diamond, including 2015's
Rebel Heart, which Rolling Stone called her "finest album in a decade" and which she celebrated
with an 82-show worldwide tour.
This actress was right at the start of her
career when she played loud-mouthed third baseman Doris Murphy in A League of Their
Own.
From there, she's been a constant presence in Hollywood, including hosting a talk show
with her name on it from 1996 to 2002.
She's also twice served as a moderator on the popular daytime talk show The View.
And she's still acting, too: O'Donnell provided the voice of Terk in Disney's Tarzan, and
has appeared on television shows like Curb Your Enthusiasm and Empire.
In 2017, she appeared in When We Rise, an ABC miniseries about the roots of the gay
rights movement.
Though she doesn't get much screen time, you'll
definitely recognize Ramsay as Helen Haley, who plays first base for the Peaches and makes
sure the umpires get their pre-game caffeine fix.
Since 1992, Ramsay has continued her acting career on both big and small screens, most
notably on the long-running TV series Mad About You.
You might also have caught her in recurring parts on shows like Six Feet Under, Dexter,
Hawthorne, and Hart of Dixie.
And because no actor's resume is complete without a few screams, she turned in a memorable
performance as the title character's daughter in the 2014 horror film, The Taking of Deborah
Logan.
Cavanagh made her feature film debut in A
League of Their Own, playing the Peaches' astronomically talented but slightly awkward-looking
second baseman, Marla Hooch.
"What do you suggest?"
"A lot of night games."
Despite gags like that one, Marla is the league's best hitter, and gets one of the movie's happiest
endings.
Since then, Cavanagh has continued acting, appearing in movies like Robin Hood: Men In
Tights and doing voiceover work for animated projects like Jimmy Neutron and The Mighty
B!
She's also a newlywed, too; the actress tied the knot with her wife Anne Chamberlain in
2013.
As Betty "Spaghetti" Horn, left-fielder and
relief pitcher for the Peaches, this actress is the star of one of the film's most heartbreaking
scenes — in which Jimmy Dugan has to tell her that her husband has been killed in action,
right before a game.
Reiner has quite a Hollywood pedigree — she's the daughter of director Rob Reiner and filmmaker
Penny Marshall, who directed A League of Their Own — and she's stayed in the family business
ever since.
The next couple decades saw her acting sporadically, most notably as the wife of Bill Paxton's
character in Apollo 13.
But more recently, she's been working behind the scenes as an executive producer on another
film directed by her mother, a documentary titled Rodman.
You'll remember this actress as Evelyn Gardner,
the right fielder who proved that at least sometimes, there is crying in baseball.
Despite her memorable performance here, Schram never really caught fire in Hollywood — her
biggest hit since has been a recurring role on the USA crime comedy Monk, where she played
a registered nurse and personal assistant to the title character.
That's right: John and Joan aren't the only
Cusacks in Hollywood.
Their older sister Ann is a prolific actress, and she made a memorable appearance in A League
of Their Own as Shirley Baker.
After she hung up her baseball glove, Cusack starred alongside Lori Petty in 1995's Tank
Girl, and she's been working pretty much non-stop ever since.
Her recent projects include a mini-League reunion with Tom Hanks in the 2016 film Sully,
as well as in a recurring role on the Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul.
Jon Lovitz Lovitz was in the middle of a successful run
on Saturday Night Live when he appeared in this film as talent scout Ernie Capadino,
who spots Dottie Hinson and her sister Kit playing in a local amateur league near their
Oregon home.
Lovitz only stuck around long enough to deliver some of the movie's best one-liners…
"You know, if I had your job, I'd hurt myself!" ...but his comedic talents have scored him
dozens of roles since then.
His highlight reel includes High School High, The Critic, The Producers, and voiceover work
for Hotel Transylvania and its sequel.
And he's still working with his SNL co-stars, too, teaming up with Adam Sandler for the
Netflix original comedy Sandy Wexler and performing live in Las Vegas with Dana Carvey.
There's one thing you definitely can't say for Lovitz's post-League of Their Own career…
"It stinks!"
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