Amazon Prime Video’s A League of Their Own series revives the classic sports comedy with all new characters and a fresh cast to play them. While the movie cast of A League of Their Own includes Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, and Lori Petty, a new generation of actors are now re-imagining the iconic story. The series continues to focus on the Rockford Peaches of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League but follows a different set of stories.
Some members of the cast of A League of Their Own bring their own baseball experience to the series. While training camps prepared most of the actors for the show’s baseball sequences, series regular Kelly McCormack was among those who had already played the sport. Her co-star Melanie Field had similarly played softball in a league for Broadway cast members before joining this show.
Many of the stories in the A League of Their Own show focus on Black and LGBTQIA+ women who tried out for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The series tells these stories with a diverse cast, including queer actresses Abbi Jacobson and Roberta Colindrez. Chanté Adams and Gbemisola Ikumelo lead a key storyline about Black women baseball players excluded from the league and their efforts to keep playing. Here’s a guide to all the characters and cast of A League of Their Own to explore Prime Video’s new Rockford Peaches.
Abbi Jacobson as Carson Shaw
A League of Their Own series co-creator Abbi Jacobson leads the cast as the Rockford Peaches’ catcher, Carson Shaw. The character’s determination leads her to jump onto a departing train on her way to tryouts, and her sudden feelings for teammate Greta Gill is one of the series’ core new stories. Jacobson previously starred as Abbi Abrams in Broad City and voiced the character Katie in The Mitchells vs. The Machines and Bean in Disenchantment.
Chanté Adams as Max Chapman
While the original movie briefly referenced the period’s racial discrimination, Prime Video’s A League of Their Own show tackles the issue directly by following Black pitcher Max Chapman. Initially turned away from tryouts, Max searches for another way to make her baseball dreams come true. Max is played by Chanté Adams, who previously starred as Roxanne Shante in Roxanne Roxanne and Linda Bludso in Bad Hair.
D’Arcy Carden as Greta Gill
D’Arcy Carden plays the glamorous Greta Gill, a Rockford Peach who throws teammate Carson Shaw’s life for an emotional curve ball by awakening previously unknown feelings. Before A League of Their Own, D’arcy Carden appeared on Barry as Natalie Greer and on Broad City as Gemma. She is best known for her role as Janet in The Good Place.
Gbemisola Ikumelo as Clance Morgan
Gbemisola Ikumelo plays Max Chapman’s best friend, Clance Morgan. Comic book-loving Clance supports Max on her mission to play baseball in whatever way she can, even working a factory job alongside her in an attempt to play on the factory team. Before A League of Their Own, Ikumelo appeared as Yinka in The Last Tree, as Huma in the comedy-drama Sex Education, and in the sketch comedy show Famalam.
Melanie Field as Jo De Luca
Greta Gill’s friend Jo De Luca is a brash, but reliable slugger played by Melanie Field. The actor’s most recent role before A League of Their Own was in The Alienist as the character Bitsy Sussman. She was part of the cast of the 2018 Heathers TV series, Heather Chapman, and played the part of Sunshine Darshan Cummings in Netflix’s Joe Goldberg adaptation You.
Roberta Colindrez as Lupe García
I Love Dick star Roberta Colindrez joins the A League of Their Own cast as stubborn pitcher Lupe García. Colindrez played Tako in Girls, Nico in Vida, and Irene in The Deuce. She also had minor roles in the acclaimed movie Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and the DC show Gotham.
Kelly McCormack as Jess McCready
Kelly McCormack plays A League of Their Own’s Canadian shortstop Jess McCready. The character always expects her teammates to play their best, but she has the most trouble with the league’s strict rules. McCormack previously appeared in Letterkenny as Betty-Anne and Ginny & Georgia as Maddie.
Molly Ephraim as Maybelle Fox
Molly Ephraim plays Maybelle Fox, the only character in this version of A League of Their Own directly modeled on a real player: Maybelle Blair, who played for the Peoria Redwings. Ephraim’s other roles include Mandy Baxter in the show Last Man Standing and Irene Kelly in The Front Runner.
Priscilla Delgado as Esti González
Optimistic Esti Gonzáles is the youngest player on the Rockford Peaches team in the A League of Their Own series. Esti is played by Priscilla Delgado, who has primarily taken roles in Spanish-speaking films. She played a young Antía in Julieta and Toñi in Abracadabra.
Kate Berlant as Shirley Cohen
Kate Berlant rounds out the Rockford Peaches as their final player, Shirley Cohen. While anxious, Shirley is observant and armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball statistics. Before joining the cast of A League of Their Own, Berlant appeared in Sorry to Bother You, The Characters, and Life & Beth.
A League of Their Own Supporting Cast & Characters
Nick Offerman as Casey “Dove” Porter – A former Major League Baseball Player making a return as the Rockford Peaches’ manager. Nick Offerman is best known as Ron Swanson in Parks and Recreation and has also had roles in the 21 Jump Street movies and the Fargo TV series.
Rosie O’Donnell as Vi – The owner of a gay bar. Rosie O’Donnell played Doris Murphy, the Rockford Peaches’ third base player, in the A League of Their Own movie. O’Donnell also played Becky in Sleepless in Seattle and provided the voice for Terk in Disney’s Tarzan.
Dale Dickey as Sergeant Beverly – The Rockford Peaches’ chaperone. Before appearing in A League of Their Own, Dale Dickey played Merab in the movie Winter’s Bone and Juanda Husser in the TV series Claws.
Saidah Arrika Ekulona as Toni Chapman – Max’s mother, who wants her to get married and continue working in the family hair salon instead of playing baseball. Saidah Arrika Ekulona’s most recent roles before A League of Their Own include ADA Gina Khalil in the Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul and several characters in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.
All episodes of A League of Their Own debut on August 12 on Amazon Prime Video.
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