A key role in the upcoming A League of Their Own series on Amazon has been cast, with Nick Offerman to play the Rockford Peaches’ coach, Casey “Dove” Porter.
It’s the series’ version of Tom Hanks’ Jimmy Dugan in the 1992 film, Amazon Studios reported. Pigeon is an ex-Cubs pitcher who’s gotten to coach the Peaches.
The show aims to bring out the joyful spirit of Penny Marshall’s classic and widens the focal point to tell the story of a whole generation of women who dreamed for playing professional baseball. It investigates race and sexuality as it follows a new ensemble of characters carving their own ways towards the field, in and outside of the League, per TV Insider.
In addition Offerman and Jacobson, A League of Their Own stars Chanté Adams, D’Arcy Carden, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Roberta Colindrez, Kelly McCormack, Priscilla Delgado, Molly Ephraim, Kate Berlant, and Melanie Field.