When Penny Marshall knocked a classic out of the park, inspiring generations to come, in `A League of Their Own`
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The day the world said goodbye to Penny Marshall, it turns out, there was crying in baseball. In the compilation book `The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women` (Mango: 236 pp., $19.99), Times film reporter Jen Yamato pays tribute to the enduring emotion, dirt-in-the-skirt thrills and quotable...