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

Those are valid arguments, I'm just going by the fact that Dottie always stuck up for Kit, would only play if Kit could, etc. In the end Kit could never get over Dottie being better and Dottie could never stop helping Kit.

This might be one of the best, worst arguments I've ever been a part of,

Of course she dropped it on purpose. Throughout the whole movie, we see Dottie catch foul balls behind her back, while doing a spilt, and falling head first in the dugout. You honestly think she couldn't hold onto the ball when Kit slid into her?


Really?

God made her drop it because of her pride.

Kit wiped that bitch out. She straight up dropped it.

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Damn people are taking this seriously.

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Page and a half before someone said something? Bunch of freaks up in here.

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Dottie wouldn't be proud of Kit if she gave her the game.

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dottie was just happy that her sister got the spotlight for once

that's the whole reason why she decided to drop the ball

They left that open on purpose so each person could come up with their own interpretation.

That said, I think she dropped it on purpose. Later she tells Kit "I guess you wanted it more than I did."

Alright 9 year old, you're making me throw my hat back into this one for one more time!

I can understand the "Dottie dropped it on purpose" crowd. One can make a very good argument for it, and I am of a mind to think that the filmmakers intended the debate. But it makes less sense with the flow of the movie as a whole.

There are two choices to how Dottie could have acted in the end of the game and how they would have represented the movie:

1) She purposefully drops the ball. This goes TOTALLY against her own nature at that point and what Kit would have wanted, but with a degree of good nature that reflects her future life for herself. The problem is this movie is about women (doing something that was done just by men) learning self determination and counting on each other. This would go against self determination by taking it away from Kit and against counting on one another as Dottie let her teammates (the other 95% of the main cast) down.

2) She tried her hardest to beat even her sister, but came up short. (That's baseball!) This would go correctly with Dotties true nature, the nature she may have lost a bit of as a wife, but remembers at Cooperstown. This ending reflects the motives of the girls, the movie, and jives with the Cooperstown endings better. In Cooperstown Dottie rediscovers herself, not JUST memories of "giving it away." I would be awefully depressed if I was Dottie in Cooperstown if I knew my last time on the field I didn't give it my all and I gift wrapped my competitive sister's biggest win.

So, the question is, is one so certain of Dotties awesomeness that she can only have lost by giving it to Kit, going contrary to what either character wants on the field, and going contrary to the lessons and best flow of the movie?

I think you can interpret the ending either way. I choose to believe that the drop wasn't intentional.