to hate the ending of this movie. I spent the entire movie rooting for the Peaches and I was supposed to be happy with their loss so I could watch stupid selfish Kit get what she wanted? Fuck that noise! But now I see the ending as a perfect summary of what makes the movie a feminist classic. Dottie, the woman who has it all, the Exceptional Woman, is allowed to have a flaw. When she watches the Belles carry away her little sister on their shoulders, she smiles like the good big sister she is, but behind the smile is a sense of relief that she will no longer have the pressure of being perfect. Jimmy, the man who dismissed his players as "girls" and "not ball players" at the beginning of the movie, turns down a job to coach a male baseball team. By the end of the movie, he has learned to value his women ball players as REAL ball players...and his newfound respect for them wasn't contingent on their winning the World Series. As for the teams? Well, the Peaches may have lost the World Series, but Walter Harvey comes around on the subject of women's baseball and agrees to give the league another season. The real victory is for women's baseball as a whole, not one particular team. In short, this movie is a feminist classic and I love it (but Kit still sucks). Well, she didn't really quit -- she took time off after