A League of Their Own (1992)
Madonna: Mae Mordabito - Center Fielder
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Quotes
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Mae Mordabito : Evelyn. Evelyn. I'm sorry but I have to kill your son.
[begins to chase Stillwell with a bat]
Doris Murphy : Mae! Mae! Don't use my bat! Use Marla's. It's heavier.
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Mae Mordabito : [During the league's publicity drive] What if at a key moment in the game my, my uniform bursts open and, uh, oops., my bosoms come flying out? That, that might draw a crowd, right?
Doris Murphy : You think there are men in this country who ain't seen your bosoms?
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Dottie Hinson : [Upon seeing Marla drunk and singing with the band] What did you do to her?
Doris Murphy : Nothin', we just gave her a dress.
Mae Mordabito : And a lotta liquor!
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Mae Mordabito : [Mae helps Shirley learn to read] Sound it out...
Shirley Baker : Kimm...
Mae Mordabito : Kimono.
Shirley Baker : Kimono, kimono. Off. And. Gr - Gra - Grabb"d.
Mae Mordabito : Grabbed.
Shirley Baker : Her. M - mi - mil - mil - milky, milky. White, white. Milky white.
Evelyn Gardner : Mae. What are you giving her to read?
Mae Mordabito : Oh, what the difference does it make? She's reading, okay? That's the important thing. Now go away, go, shoo, shoo. Go ahead, Shirley, you're doing good.
Shirley Baker : Thanks, Mae. Milky white bre - breasts.
[Gives Mae a surprised look]
Mae Mordabito : It gets really good after that. Look. The delivery boy walks in...
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Mae Mordabito : [at Tryouts] Ya know they got over a hundred girls here. So some of yous are going home.
Kit Keller : What do you mean some of us?
[Doris throws a fast ball at Kit, which Dottie catches with her bare hands]
Mae Mordabito : OK, some of them are going home.
Doris Murphy : Hey, how'd you do that?
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Doris Murphy : I knew it, ya killed Ms. Cuthbert!
Mae Mordabito : We'll bury her, I know a guy!
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Doris Murphy : Hey Mae, Mae, your date's here.
Mae Mordabito : How do I look?
Doris Murphy : Where'd you get that dress?
Mae Mordabito : Borrowed it.
Doris Murphy : It don't fit you, Mae, it's too tight.
Mae Mordabito : I don't plan on wearing it that long.
Doris Murphy : Ohh. I don't know why you get dressed at all.
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Doris Murphy : [Mae is in confession; a thud is heard] It's the second time he dropped that Bible since she's been in.
[Mae comes out, reverend looks shocked]
Doris Murphy : Mae. What did you say?
Mae Mordabito : Everything.
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Kit Keller : [while the team is stranded out on the road] Dottie, you going to come with us?
Dottie Hinson : Where are you going?
Mae Mordabito : A road house called the Sud's Bucket.
Dottie Hinson : Ah, no. You know, I'm married...
Doris Murphy : C'mon Dottie, you ain't on the farm any more, live a little bit!
Miss Cuthbert : Girls, girls, please! Mr. Goosatelli shan't be returning.
[Goes back on the bus]
Dottie Hinson : Hey, what are you going to do about Ms. Cuthbert? How are you going to get past her?
Kit Keller : Mae's going to poison her dinner.
Dottie Hinson : WHAT?
[Girls laugh]
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Dottie Hinson : Hey, hey, hey, you guys, come on! How hard can it be to make a lineup? Come on!
Doris Murphy : Oh yeah? Well, why don't you do it, Oregon?
Dottie Hinson : Me?
Mae Mordabito , Doris Murphy : [Together] Yeah, you!
Dottie Hinson : Alright, Mae, center field, lead off.
Mae Mordabito : She's good!
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Mae Mordabito : [to reporters] Hi, my name's Mae, and that's more than a name, that's an attitude.
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Mae Mordabito : ...And what am I supposed to do, huh? Go back to taxi dancin'? Ten cents so some slob can sweat gin all over me? I'm never doin' that again! So you go back there and you tell ol' rich Mr. Old Chocolate Man that he ain't closing ME down!
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Stadium announcer : Now batting for the Peaches, #5, center fielder, Mae Mordabito.
Racine Catcher : C'mon, no hitter, no hitter!
Stadium announcer : Here's the pitch...
[Mae swings and hits a ball into right center field]
Stadium announcer : ... there's a shot into right center it's... up the alley!
Peaches first base coach : Go to third, go to third, keep goin', Mae!
Ellen Sue Gotlander - Shortstop : Keep goin', Mae, all the way!
Stadium announcer : She's turning 'round first, she's heading up to third. Mordabito's heading past second!
Racine Catcher : Go to third, go to third!
Stadium announcer : She's headed into third!
Dottie Hinson : Dirt in the skirt, Mae! Dirt in the skirt!
Umpire : [Mae slides head-first into third base, ahead of the throw] Safe!
Stadium announcer : She's in there with a triple!
Mae Mordabito : Time.
Umpire : Boy, did she smack that one on the kisser. No wonder they call her "All the Way" Mae.
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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]
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Doris Murphy : [Balancing the bottom of a baseball bat on the tip of her index finger] Hey, Mae.
Mae Mordabito : What?
Doris Murphy : Come here and look at this.
Mae Mordabito : Wait a second, Doris!
Doris Murphy : I can't wait any longer, so get up!
Mae Mordabito : [Tying her shoe, looks up] So.
Doris Murphy : Yeah, so, I ain't done yet. Watch.
[Flips bat, lands on the opposite side in the palm of her hand]
Mae Mordabito : That's it?
Doris Murphy : Yeah, you can't do it.
Mae Mordabito : I could do it. How long you been working it on it?
Doris Murphy : What? Took me about year. Not counting them 2 months I was in the hospital, though. Bat hit me right in the head. Bam!
Mae Mordabito : Really?
Doris Murphy : Yep.
Mae Mordabito : You had to have knocked your behind 'cause that looks really swollen.
Doris Murphy : [Dropping the bat in a tough manner, confronting Mae with a whiny tone] Hey, what the heck kind of a think is that to say to me, Mae?
Mae Mordabito : I'm sorry.
Doris Murphy : That ain't funny.
Mae Mordabito : I'm sorry. I'm just nervous all right - -
[They see Dottie, Kit, and Marla staring at them]
Mae Mordabito : - -What are you looking at?
Doris Murphy : Yeah, what are you looking at?
Dottie Hinson : Nothing.
Doris Murphy , Mae Mordabito : Yeah right, nothing.
Kit Keller : All these girls gonna be in the league?
Mae Mordabito : [Taking a puff of her cigarette and exhaling the smoke] You wish.
Doris Murphy : Yeah, you do wish.
Mae Mordabito : They're gonna have 4 teams, 16 girls to a team.
Dottie Hinson : [to Kit] 64 girls.
Doris Murphy : Yeah, what are you, a genius?
Mae Mordabito : You know, they got over 100 girls, so, um, some of you are gonna have to go home.
[They start to walk away, talking to each other]
Mae Mordabito : Come on, Doris. Some people are real jerks.
Kit Keller : What do you mean some of us?
Mae Mordabito : Do it.
[Doris throws a baseball at Dottie, who catches the ball with her bare hands, impressing Doris and Mae]
Mae Mordabito : Okay, some of them are going home.
Doris Murphy : Hey, how did you do that? How did you do that?
[Dottie, Kit, and Marla walk on their way, with Dottie tossing the ball back to Doris, as Doris is still talking to Dottie]
Doris Murphy : . Hey? You caught that? Hello?
Mae Mordabito : Doris? Come on. Don't take such offense.
Doris Murphy : She caught it with her bare hand.
Mae Mordabito : I know. Ssh.
