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Review: A six-decade romance story in ‘A Secret Love’

by AP Film Writer
| May 1, 2020 12:03 AM

Terry Donahue, the subject of the new Netflix documentary “ A Secret Love,” was a catcher for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Yes, kind of like Geena Davis’ character Dottie Hinson from Penny Marshall’s “A League of Their Own.” She wore those skirts, she went to charm school and she kept going even when a ball cracked her eyebrow open (the coaches tried to get her to stop, but she just put a band-aid on it and got back on the field). But this extraordinary fact is only a part of her story. There’s a bigger one to tell and it’s something that was not even alluded to in that 1992 film: Terry Donahue is gay.

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