re: My 9 y/o daughter's conclusion after seeing the climax in League of Their Own

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contrary to the lessons and best flow of the movie?

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The only lesson we got from the movie:

"There's no crying in baseball."

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this movie is about women (doing something that was done just by men) getting paid to play a sport and learning it was just a job

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She tried her hardest to beat even her sister, but came up short. (That's baseball!) This would go correctly with Dotties true nature.

This ending reflects the motives of the girls, the movie,

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Couldn't an ending of dropping the ball on purpose show that she was wrong to have been so competitive for most of the movie? Isn't there the possibility that letting her sister's team win and sharing the spotlight with her was more important than winning.

Couldn't Marshall have wanted to show that it took a World War and the subsequent taking over of male dominated endeavors by females, to show men that harmony was more important than competent? Wasn't the playing of baseball by women just a more entertaining metaphor for women working in factories, driving trucks and taking over other tasks men had always done?

Maybe we all need to go all Melvin Udall and take away reason and accountability.