Don S. Davis credited as playing...
Racine Coach Charlie
- Helen Haley: [the girls are checking the team lists] Hi. Can you read, honey?
- Shirley Baker: [crying] No.
- Helen Haley: All right... what's your name?
- Shirley Baker: Shirley Baker.
- Helen Haley: Shirley Baker... Shirley Baker... okay, let's take a look.
- [scans the lists]
- Helen Haley: This is you! You're with us! You're a Rockford Peach!
- Charlie Collins, Racine Coach: Go join your team.
- Charlie Collins, Racine Coach: Okay, come on. We got a lot to do, let's settle down. You are the first...
- [Sees Shirley Baker over at the lists]
- Charlie Collins, Racine Coach: Honey, are you supposed to be here or are you on the cut list?
- [Shirley doesn't respond]
- Charlie Collins, Racine Coach: Look, I'm sorry, but if you're cut, you have to leave the field.
- Shirley Baker: [Almost in tears] Mm-hmm
- Charlie Collins, Racine Coach: Well, are you cut? Oh, just look on the list. It's either Rockford, Racine, Kenosha, or South Bend.
- [Shirtley turns to the lists, starting cry, as Helen Haley approaches her]
- Helen Haley: Hi.
- Shirley Baker: Hi.
- Helen Haley: Um, can you read, honey?
- Helen Haley: Alright. What's your name?
- Shirley Baker: Shirley Baker.
- Helen Haley: Shirley Baker. Let's have a look.
- [She looks at the Rockford Peaches list first and spots Shirley's name]
- Helen Haley: This is you.
- [Shirley laughs happily]
- Helen Haley: You're with us. You're a Rockford Peach.
- Charlie Collins, Racine Coach: [Smiling] Go join your team.
- [Shirley joins the Rockford Peaches, sitting down next to Marla]
- Charlie Collins, Racine Coach: Now, you are the first girls in the All American Girls Profession Baseball League. My name is Charlie Collins. I'll be managing the Racine team when the season begins.
- [Racine team cheers]
- Charlie Collins, Racine Coach: Now, at the end of practice today, you're all gonna be fitted for your uniforms and this is what they're gonna look like. Pretty darned nifty if you ask me.
- [Model walks up on the platform in a wool uniform complete with a miniskirt]
- Unnamed Ball Player #1: You can't slide in that!
- Doris Murphy: Hey, that's a dress!
- Mae Mordabito: It's half a dress! Excuse me, but that's not a baseball uniform!
- Doris Murphy: Yeah, what do you think we are? Baseball players or ballerinas?
- Kit Keller: [to Dottie] It's awfully short.
- Dottie Hinson: Short? I'm gonna have to squat in that thing.
- Unnamed Ball Player #2: I can't wear that. My husband'll kill me.
- [Ira Lowenstein approaches]
- Helen Haley: Excuse me, sir.
- Ira Lowenstein: Ladies...
- Shirley Baker: Excuse me.
- Ira Lowenstein: If you can't play ball in this, you can't play ball with us. Now, there are 38 girls on a train ride home, who'll play in a bathing suit, if I ask them.
- Mae Mordabito: Yeah, well, there are no pockets for my cigarettes.
- [Doris laughs]
- Ira Lowenstein: Ah, there is no smoking. There is also no drinking and no men.
- [Mae gets up, angry, ready to leave, but Doris pulls Mae back down against her will, with Mae sitting back down, frustrated]
- Ira Lowenstein: . All of your activities will be approved through your chaperones. And you will also be taking regular classes at Charm and Beauty school.
- Doris Murphy: For what?
- Ira Lowenstein: Every girl in this league is going to be a lady.
- [Marla looks scared]