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"Once a Rockford Peach, always a Rockford Peach. Twenty-one years after A League of Their Own was released in theaters, leading lady Geena Davis is still rocking her 1940s baseball dress from the movie. On Friday, Aug. 2, the 57-year-old actress channeled her character, Dottie Hinson, in a replica of her Rockford Peaches uniform, complete with a red cap and knee socks.\r\n\r\nIn lieu of a catcher&amp;apos;s mitt or baseball bat, though, Davis -- 36 when A League of Their Own came out -- brandished an archer&amp;apos;s bow and had a pack of arrows slung across her back. She appeared to be filming some kind of a commercial.\r\nSet during World War II, A League of Their Own featured the Thelma &amp;amp; Louise star as a player in the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Tom Hanks played her surly manager, Jimmy Dugan, and Madonna, Rosie O&amp;apos;Donnell, and Ann Cusack (John and Joan Cusack&amp;apos;s sister) played her teammates. (The movie also starred Jon Lovitz, Bill Pullman, and Tea Leoni.)\r\n\r\nSpeaking about the filmmaking experience in an interview with Parade last year, the comedy-drama&amp;apos;s 20th anniversary, Davis said she was surprised at how beloved the movie was -- and still is. &amp;quot;I certainly hoped people would like it and that it would be successful, but the success we had at the box office was a really big deal back then,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;Even today, lots of 15-year-old girls will tell me, &amp;apos;I play sports because of that movie.&amp;apos; It&amp;apos;s fantastic.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\n\r\nIn fact, A League of Their Own was Davis&amp;apos; initiation into sports, too. &amp;quot;I was supposed to play the best baseball player anyone has ever seen, but I didn&amp;apos;t know how to play baseball at all -- or any other sport, really!&amp;quot; she told Parade. &amp;quot;I had to learn how to look like I was that player.&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;They had tremendous major league coaches who were really great, and I remember one of the coaches even saying, &amp;apos;Hey! You&amp;apos;re picking this up pretty fast. Looks like you had some untapped athletic ability!&amp;apos;&amp;quot; she explained. &amp;quot;It was a challenge, but I got to where I was pretty good. I sort of pretended I was Jackie Cooper on the ball field.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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