Girls Can Play features sports writer, Jimmy Jones, who yearns to be a crime reporter, and thus looks for foul play on even the most routine assignments. In writing a piece about a girl’s softball team, Jimmy discovers that their sponsor, Foy Harris, is a notorious racketeer who has supposedly gone straight. Jimmy suspects Foy is still up to no good. He begins hanging around the team to do a bit of snooping, and also to be near the cute new pitcher, Ann Casey.