Abner Doubleday invented baseball. jackie Robinson intergrated it. Now Sister mary Bernadette is out to redefine what it means to throw like a girl. The big league Washington Memorials grudgingly welcome a new prospect to 1994 Spring Training: a nun with a nasty knuckleball. She's on a mission to make the club and use her contract to save her beleaguered hometown church. She enters this world of men armed only with a tattered glove and a dream she thought was gone forever.