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• Continuity: The towel that Jimmy Dugan is holding just before praying folds itself just before he drops it on the ground.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: After they bring out the Peaches for their first game, and announce all of them, they run out on the field. In the background, you can see Rosie O'Donnell trip over a wire and fall down.
  
  
• Continuity: The ball that Dottie hits that causes her sister to jump to the ground is shown being scooped up by the center fielder twice.
  
  

• Factual errors: When Dottie tells Kit there is a hole open in right field, she tells Kit to pull the ball. Kit, however, is a right-handed hitter and pulling the ball will cause it to be hit to left field.
  
  
• Continuity: When the initial team tryouts are being held in an ivy-walled stadium (obviously Chicago's Wrigley Field) there is a shot of Betty Spaghetti running back to make a catch in the outfield in front of a plywood wall that is clearly from another field.
  
  
• Continuity: While Dottie is waiting for Kit to sign a girl's ball after the World Series game, we see a stadium vendor walk into the restroom behind Dottie. In the very next shot, he walks into the restroom again.
  
  
• Factual errors: The end of the film notes that the players of the AAGPBL were "the first women ever to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame." Actually, they are not inductees. Rather, they were recognized with a permanent exhibit in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, entitled "Women in Baseball," in 1988. The first woman to actually be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame was Effa Manley, the co-owner (with her husband, Abe) of the Newark Eagles. She was inducted in 2006.
  
  
• Continuity: When all the girls must find their names on the list, we see Doris and Mae hugging each other because they both made the team. In the next shot, while Kit is pushing through the crowd to tell Dottie she had made it, she pushes by Doris who is still waiting to see the list.
  
  
• Factual errors: The pitchers are clearly seen using an overhand delivery. But the movie takes place during the AAGPBL's first year, 1943, when the game more resembled fast-pitch softball than baseball and an underhand delivery was used. Overhand pitching wasn't accepted as standard in the league until the late-1940s.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Jimmy Dugan walks in to the locker room and urinates, he urinates into a trough which would not have standing water in it, but we hear the sound of someone urinating into a toilet with water in it.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Dorris Murphy's father arrives at the final world series game to surprise her, he purchases two tickets with a modern $10 bill.
  
  
• Continuity: On the film's theatrical poster, the team is gathered on the field and you see 3 baseball caps thrown into the air, but everyone pictured is wearing their cap.
  
  
• Anachronisms: After the final game of the championship series, Jimmy Dugan tells Dottie Hinson he has an offer to manage the next season in Wichita, to which she replies, "Triple A." The AAA designation did not exist until 1946; before then, the top minor leagues had a AA designation.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene where Dottie's parents are listening to Maida Gillespie's radio broadcast, you can see in their magazine collection the Life magazine on which Dottie is on the cover doing the splits while catching the pop fly. That doesn't happen until later in the movie.
  
  
• Continuity: The stadium where the Rockford Peaches play changes throughout the movie, i.e. the outside, the stands, the dugout, etc.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Peaches are leaving for the World Series, Doris and Evelyn are seen carrying Stillwell Angel's toys down the front steps twice.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the scene where Marla is trying out in the gym and she hits the ball though the window you can tell that the ball is going though two different windows. The first shot is from inside the gym and the ball breaks through the window at the corner of the building in a direction towards the corner of the building. The next shot is from outside the building and the ball is not coming out of the corner window, but the window next to it, and not in the same direction as the ball was hit from inside the building. The angle at which the ball came out of the building would never be possible from where Marla was hitting the ball.
  
  
• Plot holes: The car in which Dottie and her husband drive off (presumably to Oregon) has an "A card" sticker for gas rationing. Would they be able to buy sufficient gas to drive to Yellowstone National Park and back to the Midwest during the course of a 7-game World Series, much less have the time to make the drive?
  
  
• Anachronisms: Set in 1943, the "Catch A Foul-Get A Kiss" banner is printed in the font "Banco", which was created in 1951.
  
  
• Factual errors: During the final game, the Peaches last batter in the top of the 9th hits a fly ball out. The announcer says it is going to right field, yet when they show the ball being caught it is obviously left field.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the beginning of the film, the Greyhound bus drops Dottie Hinson off in front of Doubleday Field. Doubleday Field is not, and never has been, a bus stop.
  
  
• Continuity: When it shows the girls running for the train at the beginning of the movie the engine is a steam engine. After they leave it shows the engine to be a diesel.
  
  
• Errors in geography: The Oregon Zephyr train is pulled by a model E-5A diesel-electric, distinctive by its rippled stainless steel side panels. These locomotives were used exclusively by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and its subsidiaries, the Colorado and Southern and the Fort Worth and Denver. None of these railroads ran through Oregon.
  
  
• Factual errors: The real 1943 AAGPBL World Series was played between the Racine Belles and the Kenosha Comets.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the scene just before the World Series between the Racine Belles and the Rockford Peaches when the Star-Spangled Banner is sung, the two teams are lined in a 'V' shape but you can clearly see a player from the Belles standing with the Peaches.
  
  

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