Girls Can Play is a 1937 drama about Ann Casey, a softball player, who misses a modeling opportunity due to a chance encounter with reporter Jimmy Jones. When she returns to softball, Jimmy uncovers a dark tale involving the team’s owner, a gangster named Foy Harris.

Harris, deep in crime, commits two shocking murders. He first kills his partner, then team player Sue Collins using poisoned catcher’s mitt laces. Trapped by Harris and fearing for her life, Ann becomes a hostage, only to be rescued in the nick of time by Jimmy.