Nutshell The year is 1943. WWII is underway, and with it, many of the United States’ young, able-bodied men are overseas fighting in the war, and not playing baseball. Fearing the end of Major League Baseball, gum baron Phillip K. Wrigley launches an all-female baseball league in the American Midwest, hoping to keep baseball in the public eye. The All American Girls Professional Baseball League is born, and the fledgling teams figure out how to get their game on.