re: A League of Their Own question

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Do you not recognize what constitutes "support"?

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The biggest piece of support for the argument that Dottie dropped the ball intentionally is the shot of her watching Kit cry and then the twinge of sadness on Dottie's face. Of course, the counter to that is the fact that she instructed Ellen Sue to only throw the high heat - a pitch that Kit could never catch up to back home.

Who knows really? Clearly it's implied that Dottie never cared about the sport as much as Kit, but the speech from Jimmy likely hit on her underlying competitiveness and drive.

As to your earlier contention that Dottie wouldn't come back just to let her sister win, I would say that she definitely lacked a certain desire to win considering the fact that she only showed up for the last game in the series. Thus, it's not outside the realm of possibility that, upon seeing her sister crying in the dugout, Dottie had an epiphany of sorts that winning mattered a hell of a lot more to Kit than to Dottie.

I have also discussed this scenario before, and though I see it from both sides, I tend to side with the "dropped it on purpose" crowd - mainly because Dottie was shown to be such a bad arse ballplayer that her runt of a sister, even on her best day, couldn't take Dottie out.