Rachel Phelps is the new owner of the Cleveland Indians baseball team. However, her plans for the team are rather nefarious. She wants to move the team to Miami for the warmer climate and a new stadium. To justify the move, the team has to lose, and lose badly. So she assembles the worst possible team she can. Among these are a past-his-prime catcher with bad knees, a shrewd but past-his-prime pitcher, a young tearaway pitcher (and felon) with a 100 mph fastball but absolutely no control, a third baseman who is too wealthy and precious to dive, a voodoo-loving slugger who can't hit a curve ball and an energetic-but-naive lead off hitter and base-stealer who can't keep the ball on the ground. Against the odds, and after the inevitable initial failures, they iron out some of their faults and start to win, much to Ms Phelps' consternation.
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Rachel Phelps, a former Las Vegas showgirl, has inherited the Cleveland Indians baseball team from her deceased husband. She wants to move the team to Miami, which has promised her a sweetheart deal including a new stadium. In order to do this, she must reduce the season's attendance at Cleveland Stadium to under 800,000 tickets sold, which will trigger an escape clause in the team's lease with the city of Cleveland. Believing that finishing dead last will knock attendance down low enough for her to move, she instructs her new General Manager Charlie Donovan to hire the worst team possible from a list she has already prepared. The list includes veteran catcher Jake Taylor, who has problems with his knees and was last playing in Mexico; incarcerated pitcher Ricky Vaughn, who's due to be paroled soon; power-hitting outfielder Pedro Cerrano, who practices voodoo to improve his game; veteran pitcher Eddie Harris, who no longer has a strong throwing arm and is forced to doctor his pitches; and third baseman Roger Dorn, a one-time star who is under contract but has become a high-priced prima donna. As manager, Phelps hires Lou Brown, a career minor league manager of the Toledo Mud Hens who works in the off-season as a tire salesman.

At spring training in Tucson, Arizona, the brash but speedy center fielder Willie "Mays" Hayes crashes camp uninvited, but is invited to join the team after displaying his running speed. Spring training reveals several problems with the new players: Vaughn has an incredible fastball but lacks control. Hayes is able to run the bases quickly and steal them effectively, but hits only pop flies, and Cerrano, despite his tremendous power, cannot hit a curveball. The veterans have their own problems: Dorn refuses to aggressively field ground balls, afraid that potential injuries will damage his upcoming contract negotiations, and it becomes clear that Taylor's bad knees will be a season-long concern. Every time a player displays one of their bad habits, Brown forces them to do push-ups or sit-ups on the spot -- when Dorn objects and shows Lou his contract, Lou urinates on it. On the final day, when Brown begins cutting the team down to 25 players, Dorn plays a practical joke on Vaughn, making him believe he was cut, resulting in a locker-room brawl. Taylor intervenes, telling Vaughn not to fight with Dorn (who always badgers the rookies) and to save it for the field.

After the team returns to Cleveland before the season begins, Taylor takes Vaughn and Hayes out to dinner but comes across his ex-girlfriend Lynn, who is dining with her current beau. Taylor believes he can try to win her back by proclaiming that he has a major league job again, but is disappointed to hear that she is already engaged.

The Indians' new season starts off poorly: Vaughn's initial pitching appearances end in disaster, with his wild pitches earning him the derogatory title "Wild Thing." On a rare occasion when Vaughn does get a ball over the plate, it is powered well over 400 feet by the New York Yankees' best hitter, Clu Haywood. Brown discovers that Vaughn's control is off because his eyesight is poor; once Vaughn gets glasses his control greatly improves, and he becomes one of the team's aces and his moniker of "Wild Thing" becomes a rallying cry for fans. Despite their flaws, the team begins to improve, so Phelps decides to demoralize them further by removing luxuries, such as replacing their team jet with a dilapidated prop plane, then with an old bus. She also refuses to fix the teams locker room whirlpool and provide a masseuse for injuries. However, these changes do not affect the Indians' performance and the team continues to win.

One night after an Indians loss where the team showed great promise, Brown mentions to Donovan that the team could do much better, perhaps even providing a few All-Stars for the league, if there was one thing to pull them all together. Donovan reveals Phelps' plan to Brown, who then relays the same news to the players. Brown also tells them that if the team plays too well for Phelps to void the lease, she will release them all regardless. With nothing to lose, the team agrees to get back at Phelps by winning the pennant. Brown motivates the team further by providing a double-layered cardboard cutout of Phelps from her showgirl days; after every victory, a piece of the outer layer is removed, eventually presenting a (mostly) nude picture of Phelps.

The team plays very well down the stretch of the season, and clinch a tie for first in the American League East by beating the Chicago White Sox on the last day of the season. They force a one-game playoff with the division's co-leaders, the Yankees. Prior to the playoff, Taylor continues to try to woo Lynn back and they share a night together. Vaughn learns that he will not be the starting pitcher for the big game and goes to a bar to mope, where he encounters Suzanne Dorn, whom he doesn't know. Feeling spited after seeing her husband Roger on television with another woman, she retaliates by seducing Vaughn. Vaughn is unaware of who she is until she tells him before leaving the apartment.

Taylor advises Vaughn to keep his distance from Dorn for most of the game by staying in the bullpen. The game remains scoreless until the seventh inning when Harris gives up two runs. Cerrano comes to the plate in the bottom of the seventh and misses badly on two curveballs. He angrily threatens his voodoo god Jo-bu, then hits the next pitch -- another curve -- for a two-run homer. In the top of the ninth, the Yankees are able to load the bases for the power-hitting Clu Haywood, and Lou decides to bring Vaughn in to pitch to him. Taylor is reluctant but Brown has a strong hunch that Vaughn is due. While Taylor taunts Haywood from behind home plate, Vaughn strikes out his nemesis on three straight fastballs to end the inning, the fastest is clocked at 101 mph.

With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Hayes manages an infield single. The Yankees respond by bringing in their headhunting closer, Duke Simpson, to pitch to Taylor. After Hayes steals second, Taylor and Lou trade signs in the dugout, and Taylor points to center field, calling his shot. The Duke responds by throwing a fastball straight at Taylor's head, but the catcher is undeterred and gets back up and points again. However, with Hayes running, Taylor bunts instead, catching the Yankees infield off-guard. Despite his weak knees, Taylor manages to beat out the throw to first as Hayes rounds third and heads for home plate. Hayes slides safely into home, giving the Indians the win on a walk-off single. As the team celebrates, Dorn punches Vaughn in the face but then helps him up to continue the celebration. Jake finds Lynn in the stands, who raises her left hand to show that she is no longer wearing an engagement ring, and they reunite as the film closes.

Real life relief pitcher Mitch Williams (with the Chicago Cubs at the time of the film's release) was inspired to model himself after the Rick Vaughn character. He began to wear the number 99 and had "Wild Thing" played when entering games, shortly earning the nickname "Wild Thing". In addition, the modern day tradition of relief pitchers, mainly closers, having their own intro songs was largely inspired by this film.
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During the 2016 baseball season real-life Cleveland Indians players Jason Kipnis and Mike Napoli acquired two Jobu statues and set them up in a shrine in the team's locker room at Progressive Field. They initially placed an offering of vodka in it but then switched to rum, resulting in a 6-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays in June. In July they even sacrificed a supermarket chicken to help end teammate Yan Gomes' slump.
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When director David S. Ward asked Bob Uecker to play Harry Doyle in the film, Ward had chosen Uecker because of his acting work in Miller Lite ads and on the sitcom Mr. Belvedere (1985). It wasn't until Ward met Uecker did he learn that Uecker had been, for nearly 20 years, the radio broadcaster for the Milwaukee Brewers.
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David S Ward is actually a life long Cleveland Indians fan. His inspiration for creating the movie was simply because he thought it would be the only way he would ever see the Indians actually win anything.
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Charlie Sheen admitted to Sports Illustrated that he took steroids to prepare for his role. He believed the steroids he took caused him to increase his fastball to 85 MPH.
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'Charlie Sheen' was a high school pitcher who was offered a baseball scholarship to the University of Kansas. In the movie he threw a 101mph fastball, but in reality Sheen could throw in the high 80s. This made it easier to simulate the fastball on film.
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After Vaughn strikes out Heywood, he is congratulated in the dugout by a player named "Keltner". Ken Keltner was the 3rd baseman on the 1941 Indians whose fielding heroics ended Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hit streak.
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The scene when Harry Doyle dabs some Jack Daniels whiskey behind his ear was improvised by Bob Uecker. He said it was meant to show that his character liked whiskey so much that he would put some on himself (like perfume).
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For many of the wide crowd scenes of the climatic playoff game, there were over 20,000 extras in the stands. When the team first ran onto the field with the crowd roaring, Dennis Haysbert admitted to being emotionally overwhelmed by the experience. Former Major Leaguer and technical advisor Steve Yeager noticed Haysbert's reaction and said to him, "That's what it's like 162 times a year."
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Harry Doyle's line "Just a bit outside", which became one of the film's more memorable and imitated catchphrases wasn't in the script. Bob Uecker improvised the line and several others under initial encouragement from David S Ward.
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Many tricks were used to make the actors seem like they were as good as their characters. For example, the pitching mound in a real baseball stadium is 60'6" away from the home plate, but to give the impression that Charlie Sheen's 85 mph fastball was traveling 100mph, they moved the mound up 10 feet and shot from behind the plate so the viewer wouldn't notice the distance difference. Also, all Wesley Snipes' running scenes are shown in slow motion to give the impression that he is running faster than he actually is.
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The opponent slugger known as Yankees home run threat Haywood was played by former pitcher of the Milwaukee Brewers, Peter Vuckovich. Peter Vuckovich never hit a single home run in his entire 11 year major league career. In fact, during 8 of those 11 years he never made a single plate appearance, since he was pitching in the American League - which uses a designated hitter to bat for the pitcher.
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The Rachel Phelps character and her plan to move the Indians was inspired by real-life Minnesota Twins owner Calvin Griffith. In the 1970s, during the planning stages of constructing the Metrodome stadium, Griffith had negotiated for an escape clause in the team's lease which said that if the Twins' home attendance was under 1.4 million per season for three consecutive years, the team could be released from its contract and leave Minnesota. Like the Phelps character, Griffith let quality players depart via free agency and used cheap, inexperienced rookies and has-beens. The Twins lost 102 games in their first year in the Metrodome in 1982, then 92 games the year afterward, with attendance under 900,000 in each of those seasons. A group of investors from Tampa bought 42 percent of the team, and the Twins were on the verge of moving to Florida. To many fans, it appeared that Griffith had weaseled the escape clause into the contract and set up the roster so he could put it into practice. The situation was avoided when Griffith sold the Twins to banker Carl Pohlad. The Tampa group sold its minority stock to Pohlad, and the Twins remained in Minneapolis.
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In the scene where Jake invades Lynn's party, one of the guests asks how much Jake makes in the Majors. He replies, "I make the league minimum." At the time(1989) the MLB salary minimum was $68,000. Average household income in 1990 is roughly $30,000. So he was making a very respectable double the average household income.
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Fans pushed to have Charlie Sheen appear in his Rick (Wild Thing) Vaughn persona to throw out a ceremonial first pitch at a 2016 World Series game played in Cleveland. Sheen said he was receptive to doing it, but Major League Baseball and the Indians had already decided on others to do it.
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In the commercial for the movie when it was in the theaters, there was a scene in which Ricky Vaughn, Jake Taylor, and Willy Hays are in the restaurant, and they are discussing a homerun Ricky gave up to a batter. Jake says to Ricky, "That ball wouldn't have gone out of a lot of parks." Ricky says, "Name one." Jakes pauses and says, "Yellowstone." This scene was omitted from the theatrical release, but was written into the script of Major League II (1994).
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Most of the filming was done during the summer of 1988, which was one of the hottest summers on record in Milwaukee. This is easily apparent in the final playoff game, where most of the players are wearing long sleeves and jackets to indicate a cool fall night, whereas almost all the fans in the stands are wearing short sleeve shirts and shorts.
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The home game scenes were filmed at Milwaukee's County Stadium, which has since been torn down, where Bob Uecker, who portrays announcer Harry Doyle, called games for the Brewers and played for the old Milwaukee Braves. The exterior stadium shots use Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, which has since been torn down.
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Many of the baseball players in the scenes filmed at Hi Corbett Field in Tucson, Arizona were members of the University of Arizona baseball team.
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Former Major League catcher Steve Yeager served as a coach for the actors in training for the movie, also serving as a stunt double for Tom Berenger in many scenes when Jake Taylor would make a throw from home plate or be in a home plate collision, as well as play third base coach Temple.
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When Willie Mays Hayes says he can "run like Hayes," he is referring to 'Bullet' Bob Hayes, an Olympic gold medalist sprinter who became a Hall of Fame wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers from 1965-1975. Once considered the fastest man alive as the holder of several world records, he is the only athlete to win an Olympic gold medal and a Super Bowl ring.
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While not particularly specified, many of the players in the movie seem to be based on, or inspired by, many former Major League stars. -Pedro Cerrano, according to David S. Ward, is partially based on Orlando Cepeda, and Wade Boggs, who would superstitiously eat chicken before every game. Willie Mays Hays, according to Ward, is based on Rickey Henderson.Ryan Duren was the inspiration for the character Ricky "Wild Thing" Vaughn in the movie Major League, according to its author and director David S. Ward.Eddie Harris appears to be inspired by Gaylord Perry, who was well known for using outside substances to enhance his pitches.Jake Taylor may be inspired by Carlton Fisk, a catcher who had a long career with the Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox. Lou Brown does mention early on that Taylor was an All-Star in Boston.
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The film depicted a sparse crowd for Opening Day. Even though the Indians routinely drew sparse crowds during their lean years, they generally would have sell outs or near sell outs for Season or Home Openers.
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Clu Haywood was based on former Yankees' Catcher Thurman Munson.
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In the final game, Willie Mays Hayes makes a great catch at the wall, in front of a Minnesota Twins banner. Hall-of-Famer Kirby Puckett (of the Twins) was legendary for his gravity-defying catches off the center-field wall, especially in the 1991 World Series. This catch was also rumored to pay special homage to Stormin' Gorman Thomas of the Milwaukee Brewers for his famous wall-catch in a game against the Baltimore Orioles, which preceded their trip to the World Series in 1982.
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In a couple of press box scenes, Harry Doyle is shown with cups bearing the Miller Lite Beer logo. During the 1980's Bob Uecker, who played Doyle, appeared in several commercials for Miller Lite
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The movie was followed up by the sequel Major League II. One year after the sequel's release, the real life Indians would actually win their first AL Pennant since 1954, leading some to refer to the experience as Major League III.
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According to David S. Ward, Wesley Snipes was not a very skilled baseball player in real life, never having played much of it before. Ward said Snipes was so awful at throwing a baseball that they did not have any scenes of him throwing a ball.
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In the season opener game, a sign on the outfield wall displaying the Milwaukee Brewers logo can be clearly seen. Bernie Brewer's house and beer mug was dismantled for the shooting of the movie, as to not give the identity of the interior shots of the stadium.
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When Willie Mays Hayes backs out of the practice area headed to the parking lot, he waves a green hankerchief. This is actually a queue for the motorcycle driver to enter the frame.
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The restaurant where Lynn Wells (Rene Russo) is spotted on a date is in Milwaukee. It was at the time a gourmet restaurant, stood empty for a time and then was a Russian Restaurant and dance club. It again sat empty for a period and is currently (2005) a Baptist Church.
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The vehicle that Willie Mays Hayes drives to opening day of spring training is a customized VW Beetle with a Rolls Royce grill, replacement trunk and hood ornament. The "Elegant Beetle" kit, as one was called, was popular in the mid-70s to the mid-80s until Rolls Royce sued a company responsible for one of the conversion kits. This kit may also have been referenced in the 1978 Cheech and Chong movie, Up in Smoke.
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The Yankees are described as the defending American League Champions. At the time of the movie's release the Yankees had last won the AL Pennant in 1981. The Oakland Athletics were the American League Champions the year of filming (1988), release (1989), and post release (1990). The Athletics swept the San Francisco Giants to win the World Series in the release year.
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Roughly presages the 1995 Seattle Mariners situation: with a history of revolving-door, absentee ownership more concerned with the bottom line than championships, and the ever-present threat of relocation (Miami was the usual option until the Marlins were created; in '95 the suitor was Tampa Bay, and the Mariners' departure seemed imminent). However, the 95 Mariners went on an unprecedented run, tying the Angels on the last day of the season, and forcing a one-game playoff. After winning that game, in the 5th and deciding game of the playoffs versus a burgeoning Yankees dynasty, Seattle's ace Randy Johnson, came out of the bullpen (a la Wild Thing) to save the game. The game and series was won in extra innings by Edgar Martinez' iconic double down the left field line.
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Just before Rick Vaughn (Charlie Sheen) gives up a home run to Heywood for the second time, Harry Doyle (Bob Uecker) goes over how the other runners got on base. One of the players he mentions is Bill Leff, who actually is the actor who plays Bobby James in the movie.
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Contrary to popular belief, there is no rule in baseball that says a batter must drop his bat before running the bases. He will not be called "out" for doing so, unless an umpire determines that his not dropping the bat gave him an undo advantage in running the bases. Of course, this would not apply in the case of a batter hitting a home run. The "drop your bat" rule is an unwritten rule of baseball that actually aids base runners, as carrying a bat would interfere with with the runner pumping his arms to gain speed.
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Haywood asks Jake Taylor, "How's your wife and my kids?" This is a reference to an unusual trade that occurred before the 1973 season, when Yankee teammates Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson traded families with each other.
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During spring training and the two coaches walk behind the plate to watch Sheen throw; the camera reverses and it appears he shatters the sign. A pitching machine was used instead.
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In real life, Charlie Sheen is an avid fan of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team.
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It is likely that Ricky Vaughn was based on Ryan Duran, a Yankees pitcher of the Casey Stengel era. Duran had a 100mph fastball and eyeglasses thick as coke bottles. As Casey Stengel said "I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense."
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The shortstop for the Yankees in the final game wore number 2. Not long after this film was made, a Yankee shortstop wearing number 2 became a fixture there... And a Hall of Famer that Yankee shortstop was none other then Derek Jeter.
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Charlie Sheen had previously played real life Baseball Player Hap Felsch in the film Eight Men Out. Dennis Haysbert would later play the part of a fictional pro baseball player in the film Mr Baseball, as would Wesley Snipes in The Fan. James Gammon was also featured as a fictional Indians Manager on the 1990's TV series Homefront,
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Neil Flynn's film debut.
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Before Vaughn's first pitch to Haywood, he slammed his hand and glove together. This was inspired by former MLB closer Al Hrabosky, who famed that every time he entered a game.
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Because of the stadium filmed in the movie and the fact that the Indians played a 'home' series at Milwaukee's new ballpark, the Indians were unofficially dubbed "The Cleveland Indians of Milwaukee." Coincidentally, the team they played was "The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim."
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The performance of "Wild Thing" in this movie and the sequel, has one too many "shake it". It is actually "shake it, shake it wild thing", but in the movies it is "shake it, shake it, shake it wild thing".
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Most notably Clu Haywood and The Duke are in major violation of the New York Yankees appearance and dress code policy. Haywood and Duke both have long hair, while Haywood has a goatee
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In April 2007, due to snow in Cleveland, the real Cleveland Indians were unable to open their home season at Jacobs Field. Miller Park in Milwaukee, which had been built as the replacement for Milwaukee County Stadium in the 1990s and had been constructed with a retractable dome, was chosen to be the 'stand-in' for the Indians' home turf.
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Jake is reading a copy of "Moby Dick" with the banner of fake publisher "Classic Comics" but later, on the team bus, he's reading comic copies of "The Deerslayer", "Song of Hiawatha", & "Crime & Punishment" with the real "Classics Illustrated" banner.
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Shots of the Scoreboard in the movie show a logo for WTMJ, the NBC Affiliate for Milwaukee.
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When Jake ( Tom Beringer) stops by Dorn's ( Corbin Bernsen) house the TV has a business show on in the background and you can clearly her the commentator saying International Business Machines( IBM ) closed down 1/2 to 96 1/8. In 1989 IBM stock averaged $14.8961, not even close to $96.
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Toward the last act of the film, Lou Brown mentions to Charlie Donavan the Cleveland Indians are 60-61 after 121 games of 162 game season. In a team meeting after, Brown tells the players that he figures they will need to win 30 more games to win the division, or at least force the 1 game playoff with the New York Yankees. In order to win 30 games, the Indians have to go 30-11 and play .732 baseball. They do win the 30th game, and finish with the same record as the Yankees at 90-72 to force the 1 game playoff.
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Rachel Phelps' ultimate goal was to move the Indians to Miami. In 1997, the real life Indians lost the World Series to the Miami based Florida Marlins.
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In real life, Margaret Whitton was actually a Yankees fan and season ticket holder.
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Wesley Snipes did not reprise his role as Willie Mays Hayes in the franchise's sequels, but he almost had the opportunity to reunite with Charlie Sheen on another sports comedy, White Men Can't Jump (1992). However, Sheen turned down the role, which went to Woody Harrelson.
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Chelcie Ross (Eddie Harris) played baseball in high school. He was a three sport star also playing football and basketball, and also starred in movies about those sports; "Rudy" (football), and "Hoosiers" (basketball).
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Charlie Sheen and Tom Berenger starred together in Platoon (1986). Unlike this film, where they are friends, they play enemies in Platoon.
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The only film in the series to be distributed by Paramount Pictures. Warner Bros. released the two sequels. Also, the only film to be rated R; Major League II was rated PG, while Major League: Back to the Minors was rated PG-13.
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Steve Yeager (Duke Temple), former MLB catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, wore #7. Tom Berenger (Jake Taylor) wears #7.
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Several cast co-stars took part in advance media PR following the USA premiere when between flights to visit Cannes Festival, which included attending the most densely packed (UK non-Award), celebrity event 'Save the Rose Theatre' campaigns, public PR day, May 1989. [See artist entry]
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A scene featuring the wedding of Jake Taylor and Lynn Wells was shot and to occur after the Indians victory over the Yankees in the end but it was deleted because the producers felt that the wedding scene would put the focus of the movie on Jake and Lynn and not the team.
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In the film's original ending, Rachel Phelps admits before the final game that her bitchy persona was all an act in order to fire up the players. She says had they not had a good season, the team might have gone bankrupt. Audiences preferred the bitchy Rachel, so the ending was re-shot to show her misery when the Indians won. The alternate ending appears on the Wild Thing Edition DVD.
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When Lou Brown talks to Vaughn about sending him back to the minors to work on his control, he says "take Ryan there," motioning to a picture behind him as an example of a pitcher who turned it around in the minors. Yet the audio of "Ryan" is clearly dubbed in; Brown mouths "Koufax" and a picture of the left-handed Sandy Koufax (Ryan was a righty) is shown when Brown stands up. This line was likely changed after someone informed the writer/director David S. Ward that Sandy Koufax never played a day in the minor leagues, having joined the Dodgers directly out of high school.
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When the guy hits a home run and the fans are arguing that it's too high or too hard and then the other guy says, "Who gives a shit, it's gone," the words don't match his mouth.
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In the Indians locker room prior to the opening game, Ricky Vaughn is sitting in a chair and nervously flipping and catching a baseball into the air with one hand. Jake Taylor comes over and says, "Relax kid, we've got 161 of these games left to go." On the next flip, Vaughn is supposed to be rattled by Taylor's comment and miss the catch (evidenced by the audible "thud" of the ball on the floor). However, if you look at the bottom of the frame, you can actually see Vaughn still catch the ball in his hand.
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Incorrectly regarded as a goof. All "real baseball players" do not align their "knocking knuckles." That technique was taught in some baseball camps, but it more the exception than the rule. It's easy to see now with DVRs: pause the picture when there is a close-up of a hitter and you'll see that almost all of them use a box grip.
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When Jake confronts Roger in his house after tanking the next to last play in the Oakland game, Jake says he didn't come up with the ball Riker hit. The player who hit it had Alcantara on his jersey. Riker was the following batter (who Jake distracts by talking about his wife).
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When Dorn throws out a Yankee to end the top of the first inning in the final game Harry Doyle (Bob Uecker) says that he threw over to "Metcalf" but the first baseman's name was Ward, as that was what was on the back of his jersey.
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In his final at-bat Jake (the catcher) has a close up of his hands with the bat on his shoulder. His knuckles are aligned incorrectly. All real baseball players know that the "knocking knuckles" must be aligned while the bat is on your shoulder in order to have straight wrists when following through with your swing. (this error happens several times during the movie from other characters). If you don't align your "knocking knuckles" correctly, one or both of your wrists will be bent and you will have difficulty swinging with power.
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In the scene where Rick Vaughn pitches for the first time during spring training, the "NO PEPPER" sign is on the left side of home plate before Vaughn pitches. After Vaughn throws his pitch, the sign moves to a location directly above home plate which is where the ball shatters the sign.
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In the final "bunt and steal" scene, after the signs have been given by Lou Brown and the base coach, Taylor is knocked down by an up and in fastball by the Duke. Hayes should have been running on the pitch as he would have assumed Taylor was bunting based on the signs. There's no way the signal would have included a "run on the 2nd pitch" instruction as Taylor already had one strike on him. Hayes steals on the next pitch and scores on Taylor's bunt single.
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When Dorn (#24) gets his hit in the 7th inning of the playoff game, the shot of the base runner rounding first base shows his number as #8, and the first base coach has #2. When his face is shown again, Dorn's number is back to #24, and the first base coach is shown to be wearing #16 in all other shots.
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In Jake's last at-bat, the Yankee pitcher throws him a brush-back pitch which causes him to dive into the dirt to avoid being hit. While on the ground, his uniform is very dirty from the dust of the batter's box. The Indian's radio announcer (Bob Uecker) says that "Taylor refuses to dust himself off". However, as Jake re-takes his stance, his uniform is clean. As Jake crosses first base on his bunt attempt, he falls into the dirt of the base path, again becoming very soiled. But in the post-game scenes he again has a clean, spiffy uniform.
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In the final playoff game, as Cerrano waits at the plate with Dorn on first in the 7th inning, there is a brief wide shot of the field, and the bases are empty.
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In the movie, Lynn's last name is Westland. In the credits, her last name is Wells.
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At the end, when the Yankees' first baseman is throwing home, the home plate umpire has no hat on. His hat is on in all other shots.
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When the Indians are playing Oakland in the "national television" game and Mike Rexman (Oakland), is at the plate the sun angle changes drastically between when Jake goes out to talk to Rick Vaughn and the last pitch of the game.
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In the top of the 9th during the one game playoff against the Yankees, the stadium clock reads 10:20 PM as Vaughn is coming in from the bullpen. In the bottom of the 9th right as the Duke comes in from the bullpen, the stadium clock still reads 10:20 PM.
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When Dorn gets his hit in the 7th inning of the playoff game, he rounds first base and the first base coach is #2. When he gets back to the base Leach (the first base coach) is #16.
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In the final scene of the film, at the point where Jake is holding Lynn up and Vaughn and Willie exchange their special handshake, you can see that Willie's jersey is much cleaner than it was while running the bases in the process of scoring the winning run.
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Just after all the players report to spring training, there is a shot of Roger Dorn walking with his duffel bag over his shoulder in the room with all the bunk beds. Right behind him, an extra playing one of the baseball player hopefuls (he has a mustache and is carrying a bag also) is walking behind him. The scene cuts to Dorn saying hello to Jake Taylor (Tom Berenger). When it cuts back to just Dorn, you can see that same extra doing exactly the same walking pattern he just did a second ago, like he just arrived twice.
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When Lou has Ricky Vaughn in his office and is discussing his eyesight problem, there are a pair of glasses sitting on top of Lou's desk. Lou writes down some letters on a pad, the camera angle changes as Lou stands up; the glasses are no longer on the desk.
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After the Indians start winning and have a record that is roughly 60-61, a series of newspaper articles sequentially appears with news of the Indians' latest success. The dates on the newspapers are inconsistent. The first one is some time in May (you can't have played 121 games by May!). Then as the season progresses and the Indians move toward first place, the newspaper dates move backwards into April, again an impossibility.
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When Cerrano lights up the cigar for Jobu during Harris' prayer before the first game, you can hear Chelcie Ross delivering the line "Jesus Christ, Cerrano" in the background before they cut to him.
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When they report to spring training in the bunk room Willie introduces himself to Jake and Ricky, seconds later Cerrano takes Dorn's golf club cover to use for his bat and in the background you see Willie just walking through the door. But that would be impossible since Willie was just talking to Jake and Ricky seconds before.
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At the end of the movie, right after Willie Mays Hayes has been called safe at home, he jumps up and runs out to Jake Taylor, and as they celebrate, his batting helmet disappears and reappears between shots.
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In the game against Oakland, when Rexman steps up to the plate, right after he hits the ball he drops the bat. In the next shot he has it in his hand again.
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The Stroh's and Old Milwaukee Beer signs on the back fence of the spring training camp are replaced by Miller signs in one shot.
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In the final game against the Yanks, the # 37 player is hitting, Jake Taylor then throws to 1st base to pick off the #37 player. The #37 player appears later in the game, this time being referred to by a different name by Harry Doyle.
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During spring training, after the game against the Cubs, when players are looking to see if they got cut, Cerrano takes the snake and rubs the face of it on the paint on the locker. There is already a circle painted on the locker, and Cerrano makes a cross inside the circle with the snake. When the camera changes views, there is no cross on his locker.
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In the last game, Dorn throws to a right handed first baseman. There is then a long shot of the players leaving the field and the first baseman is obviously left-handed.
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When Dorn throws out the runner at first, the throw is caught by a right handed first baseman. When the Indians run off the field, it is an entirely different group of players. The 1B is now left-handed and wearing Dorn's #24, the pitcher is much younger looking and wearing #10.
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The necklace on Vaughn's chest as he's being kissed goodbye by Mrs. Suzanne Dorn moves between shots.
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In the final game, during Haywood's last at bat, Jake Taylor (the catcher) is nearly standing for the final "strike-out" pitch by Vaughn. First, a catcher would never stand that tall, unless they were making the pitch an obvious high, out-of-the-strike-zone pitch. Second, as Haywood swings through the pitch for Strike 3, the ball is shown hitting Jake Taylor's catcher's mitt perfectly in the middle of the strike zone, about a foot below where the ball was just one frame earlier. Incorrect. Catchers definitely stand that tall, although it is not common. Vaughn hit the glove, but hit it at the high target set by Taylor. There is nothing in the film that suggests the pitch was in the strike zone.
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The same fan comes out of the stands onto the field twice.
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When Taylor is in Lynn Wells boyfriend's apartment, his beer-glass goes from half-filled to three-quarters filled.
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For Serano's home run in the playoff game with the Yankees - in a portion of the shots the bat is perfectly clean and shiny and the next second it is dirty and does not look as though it has ever been cleaned.
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While the Yankees are batting in the top of the 9th in the playoff game, the scoreboard shows a 0 for runs in the inning for NY. After Haywood's strikeout ends the inning, they cut to a closeup of the scoreboard putting up the 0.
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The stadium that the Cleveland Indians play their home games in throughout the movie is actually the old Milwaukee County Stadium, former home of the Milwaukee Brewers. Some billboards/ads in the stadium were not removed, like advertisements for area radio stations 94 WKTI and 620 WTMJ.
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Incorrectly regarded as a goof. It is not an ejectable offense (then or now) in Major League Baseball to run the bases while carrying a bat, unless the umpire believes it will disrupt the play, e.g., the ball is live and there will be a play at the base where the batter/runner is going. Even then, the umpire will probably just call the batter out for interference. Carrying the bat is an ejectable offense in girls fast pitch softball.
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After Harris gives up the walk in the top of the 9th inning, the scoreboard shows 7 hits for the Yanks. Vaughn comes in and gets a strikeout. After Hayes gets a hit in the bottom of the 9th, the scoreboard shows 9 hits for the Yanks when, in fact, they only have 7.
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When Pedro Cerrano gets mad at Harris in the locker room he shouts "¡Chíngate Cabrón!" Cerrano is supposed to be Cuban, but that expression is Mexican Spanish, rarely heard in Cuba.
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When Jake first follows Lynn to her fiancè's apartment, he is able to just walk in, and go right in without needing a key, or be allowed in. Considering that it's most likely a high class building, Jake would have to break in.
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After Taylor grounds out in the 7th for 2 outs Dorn singles and Cerano homers. Taylor comes up in the ninth with 2 out and a man on. That implies 9 at bats since he grounded out. There are only 8 at bats between the same spot in the batting order. 7th inning single, homer and 3rd out of inning. 8th inning 3 outs and 9th inning 2 outs and a single. Either there should have been only one out or Dorn up with two outs.
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As Cerrano hits his game tying home run in the playoff game against the Yankees, he is seen running the bases with the bat in his hand, which (then and now) is an eject-able offense in Major League Baseball.
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In the last game against the Yankees, at "Two outs, top of the ninth, still tied at 2, Harris working on a 7-hitter" the local NBC station name is visible on the scoreboard over Harris' shoulder as WTMJ TV 4. WTMJ 4 is based out of Milwaukee. If it were Cleveland, it would read WKYC 3.
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In the final-cutdown scene, the team is in their home clubhouse as evidenced by Cerrano's elaborate decoration of his locker, as well as the sign outside when Hayes celebrates. The team is wearing their (gray) road uniforms.
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During the pre-game prayer the smoke from Pedro's altar sets off the locker room sprinklers. That type of sprinkler is activated by heat, not smoke, so they would not have gone off.
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During the National Television game against the A's,Taylor was talking trash to Rexman during an at-bat, which is (then and now) an ejectable offense in Major League Baseball.
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Willie Mays Hayes scores an infield single in his first at-bat of the season. However, the ball he puts in play hits Hayes' body right after his bat. Rule 6.05(h) states that this should have been ruled a foul ball.
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In the all-important bottom of the ninth inning, prior to Jake Taylor calling his shot, Willie Mays Hayes is at first. What probably is a hit-and-run play, Taylor swings and misses while Hayes is headed for second. As Hayes slides in to second you hear more than one person call "safe".
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When Cerrano lights the cigar for Jobu during Harris' prayer, we see smoke rise to an automatic sprinkler system and set it off. Although it takes extreme heat of a fire to set off such systems, the heat of the smoke would not have been enough to activate the system.
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In the scene in Lynn's fiance's apartment, Lynn says that she swam the 200 meter individual medley and was an alternate on the Olympic team. The 200 meter individual medley is not an Olympic event. The proper distance for the Olympics is 400 meters.
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One of the players on the Yankees is wearing #37, which was last worn by manager Casey Stengel in 1960 and retired soon thereafter.
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Through out the movie both Vaughn and Harris appear as starting, relief and closing pitchers. Major League pitchers are designated as one or the other and will rarely enter a game outside of their designated spot (e.g. it's rare for relief or closing pitcher to start a game or a starting pitcher to come in as a relief or closing pitcher).
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Rachael Phelps attempts to break the team included imposing improper Locker/Training/Conditioning Room and traveling conditions. Such conditions would be gross violations of the Collective Bargaining Agreement between MLB team Owners and the Player's Union.
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In the ninth inning of the final game against the Yankees, Vaughn comes out to retire the last hitter. With the bases loaded, Jake (the catcher) only gives one set of signals. In such situations, there are two, sometimes even three sets of signals to prevent on base players from stealing signals and communicating to the batter what is coming.
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Shot of extra used twice. There is a larger man portraying a fan wearing a grey shirt towards the end of the film who runs out of the field in celebration - the same loop is used twice. The first time is right when Jake sees Lynn in the stands, the second is when he starts kissing her and carrying her onto the field.
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The Spring Training site for the Indians is in Tucson, Arizona, according to the advertisement on the taxi Jake Taylor gets out of. While it has since moved, this was correct at the time of the film.
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In the bus, Lou Brown tells Vaughn that he is starting Harris in the Yankee game instead of him. Vaughn is clearly a starting pitcher and would thus not normally be in the bullpen for the final out of the game. However, it is not uncommon for all pitchers (including starters) to be available during winner-take-all games. For example, Randy Johnson pitched in relief for the Mariners and was the winning pitcher in Game 5 of the 1995 ALDS against the Yankees.
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Cerrano and Haywood tossed their bats and their helmets to the ground, which (then and now) is believed to be an ejectable offense in Major League Baseball. However, this is only true when an umpire feels the player is "showing up the umpire." Any umpire would see this is in disgust of their own action and would never throw out a player for that.
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When pitching, Vaughn is using an outfielder's glove which is somewhat bigger than a glove a "real" pitcher or infielder would use. However, many baseball players are highly superstitious and many pitchers do use non-infielder gloves, including at least one pitcher in the early 90s who used a catcher's mitt.
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It is mentioned in the film that the Indians had not been able to beat the Yankees. In a one game playoff, the team with the better record is awarded home field advantage. The 1 game playoff should have been played in New York. At the time of the movie, home field for a one game playoff was determined by a coin flip in league offices upon such a game becoming a possibility. The process of awarding home field for a one game playoff based on the teams' head to head record was not adapted by Major League Baseball until the 2010's.
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When the Indians start making their run and we start to see the newspaper articles, the first 3 headlines we see include the same article. It reads "Kansas City-" even though none of the first three games mentioned were against Kansas City. Furthermore, the article mentions Doug Jones, a real-life Indians reliever in the late-80's/early-'90s.
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In the last game of the series, whenever they pan to the score board, the clock says 10:20 every time it's shown, no matter how much time has passed.
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During the first game, there are several shots of the stadium scoreboard with the clock indicating it is approximately 10:50AM. No regular season major league game would start that early in the morning.
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During Manager Lou Brown's opening-day locker room speech, there is a flopped shot of Jake Taylor. The team name is obscured but the "Chief Wahoo" logo is backwards and on the opposite sleeve.
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When the team is traveling on the team bus, the movie cuts twice to an outside shot of the moving bus. It is clear that the bus is empty.
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The newspaper article showing the Indians winning 5 in a row and move into 4th spot, is dated may 28th, after 120 odd games they should be into August, not still in May.
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After Vaughn strikes out Haywood to end the top of the 9th inning, the Yankees first base coach is still seen in the 1st base coach's box as the Indians enter their dugout to begin the bottom of the 9th inning. In reality, the coach would have left the field right away.
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In all of the newspapers shown for 1988 and beyond, the headlines and pictures are about baseball, but the actual stories are not.
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Obvious stunt runner (longer hair) for Dorn as he rounds first base during the playoff game.
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In the one-game playoff with the Yankees, after Taylor bunts Willie Mays Hayes tries to score. When the catcher catches the ball thrown from first base you see the umpire behind him without his cap on in a shot filmed from behind first. In the next two shots with Hayes sliding and the umpire calling 'safe, safe' he is wearing his cap again.
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