Movie Tagline: Once in a lifetime you get a chance to do something different
Summertime is upon us once again. For all you tan, social, outdoorsy types, that means two things: beer and baseball. Luckily for you, the pasty, red-eyed, ghoulish folks here at Cinemarone have got the perfect pairing for the summer. We have the hilariously heartwarming, female empowering, Geena Davis starring, feel-good movie of 1992, A League of Their Own, paired up with the smooth, refreshing, peachy goodness that is O'Fallon Brewery's Wheach, or Peach Wheat Beer. A League of Their Own is a quintessential summer movie. It is arguably director Penny Marshall's best movie (the only real contender for that title would be Big, another Tom Hanks movie) and it must have seemed like a breath of fresh air in a year that saw such dark and/or heavy movies as Unforgiven, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Basic Instinct, Alien 3, The Crying Game, Candyman, Malcolm X, Bad Lieutenant (the original, not the Ridiculous Cage one), and A Few Good Men. To paraphrase: There's no bloody final shootout in baseball. There's no Ice Pick Killer in baseball. There's no surprise penis in baseball. You get the picture. But, in case you don't: There's no "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us" in baseball. There's no "You can't handle the truth" in baseball. Okay, now that I've got that out of my system, let's continue. A League of Their Own tells the story of the first year of the AAGPBL, which came about because of World War II. With so many able-bodied men fighting in the war, there weren't enough of them left to put together a proper season of baseball. The obvious solution: the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. While the movie treats the idea of an all-women baseball league as something that took the unwashed masses a while to get used to, in reality the AAGPBL was a huge hit from the outset. But that's a minor difference that only helps to add another dimension to the story, so it's hard to fault the screenwriters for it. All in all, the movie is a fairly accurate depiction of the events as they took place. Many of the characters were either inspired by or directly based on real people. The women who played in the league were actually required to attend charm and beauty school. Tom Hanks is a notorious urinater. All of these things are real. And the Rockford Peaches, which the movie follows, are the inspiration for this pairing. Because nothing says summer like a peach. And there's no better peach beer than O'Fallon Wheach. Wheach is a smooth, clean wheat beer in its own right. The fresh peach flavor is an added bonus. It is a light and refreshing brew, with a moderate amount of carbonation, making it good for any occasion. But summer is when this one really shines. Its crisp, fruity flavor and low bitterness make this one so good on a hot day, especially when you are floating down the river sipping it out of a can. Or when you are watching the Rockford Peaches win people's hearts and minds as they climb to the top of the standings. If you love women's baseball, Wheach is the beer for you. Unless you're a Racine Belles fan, in which case you can go straight to hell.
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