Sun’s out, fun’s out!
Batter up: The Rockford Peaches are back.
(The show is not a direct remake, and it will instead introduce entirely new characters.)
Meet the Rockford Peaches of Amazon Prime Video’s ‘A League of Their Own’ series: Lil Frex, Roberta Colindrez, Kate Berlant, Abbi Jacobson, Rae Gray, D’Arcy Carden, Melanie Field, and Molly Ephraim.Anne Marie Fox/Amazon Studios
“We both loved the movie,” Graham tells EW.
Meanwhile,Nick Offermanplaysthe Peaches' male coach.
In the show, Chante Adams plays Max Chapman, a young Black ballplayer with similar dreams of stardom.
Gbemisola Ikumelo and Chanté Adams in ‘A League of Their Own’.Anne Marie Fox/Amazon Studios
She’s joined by Gbemisola Ikumelo as her best friend, Clance Morgan.
(They also consulted with Marshall before her death in 2018.)
That’s as heroic and amazing and still as relevant now as it was in 1992 or in 1942.
That joy of finding others that are like you is pretty special."
After all, as any fan can tell you, there’s no crying in baseball.
They loved the sound of the bat, the sound of the cleats.
We just want to share that same feeling with everybody else."
A League of Their Ownwill premiere this summer on Prime Video.
