by Eden
Other than the 1945 film serial, Brenda Starr has been adapted two more times to date, once as TV movie in 1976 and once as theatrical film that was produced in 1986 but wasn’t released until 1989 in Europe and 1992 in the U.S.
I did not watch all of them. I watched maybe … 5? I admittedly lost track. There may have been another I don’t remember.
It’s now October and so it feels appropriate to wrap up the baseball season with a documentary about a player known as Mr. October.
Women have played baseball from the beginning of the sport, but as men’s leagues dominated, girls and women got pushed into softball. Professional (or even semi-professional) women’s baseball leagues all but disappeared.
Yeah, it’s a familiar story, even more so as Lung and Wai’s friendship turns into a rivalry, but it’s baseball. The usual beats of this story are comforting in a lot of ways. We watch baseball movies to see the underdogs become champions and this delivers on that.