Baseball Girls is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Lois Siegel and released in 1995.
[1] The film centres on women's baseball, profiling the history and culture of the sport from the days of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League through to the modern day, through a blend of animation, still photography and live action footage.
[3] She also expressed her disappointment that Ken Burns's otherwise acclaimed 1994 documentary series Baseball had devoted very little time to women's role in the sport even though Burns had directly consulted Siegel for assistance in researching that aspect of the sport.
[1] Faye Dancer, who had been a player in the All-American Girls league, served as a creative consultant on the film.
[5] The film faced some criticism for virtually ignoring the popularity of the sport among lesbians, with Siegel stating that she had contacted a lesbian baseball team to take part in the film, who declined due to the team members' concerns about being too publicly visible;[3] conversely, however, it received praise for including the stories of some significant African-American players in the history of women's baseball, an element that A League of Their Own had downplayed.