She directed "A League of Their Own" and she'd like to return to the ballgame, but Penny Marshall says Hollywood isn't hankering for more sports movies right now.
A big sports fan in her own right, MTV News met up with Marshall as she attended NYC's Joe Torre Safe At Home Foundation Gala on Friday to see the 1998 World Series Championship team of the New York Yankees re-assembled to benefit Margaret's Place, a school-based initiative to protect victims of domestic violence. Marshall's a huge New York Yankees fan, but she's also got a soft spot for Newark, at least when it comes to a story there about the first woman who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Game: Effa Manley, who co-owned with her husband Abe the Newark Eagles, a team in what was in the 1940s called the Negro Leagues. Read more...