Fact Vs. Fiction
- In the opening credits, a newspaper headline says that "Billy Chapel dominates game one of the 1984 World Series". In real life the starting pitcher of game one for the Tigers was Jack Morris.
- No Detroit Tigers pitcher has ever pitched a perfect game.
- Although filming took place prior to the 1999 season, the movie correctly picked the Yankees to win the division with the Boston Red Sox in second place. The movie also nearly correctly determined the Tigers final record of 69-92. In the movie, the Tigers record is 64-97, with one game to play.
- In the next to the last game of the actual 1999 season, the Tigers were playing in Kansas City against the Royals. The Tigers lost 5-9.
- In the scene where Billy first meets Jane in 1994, she makes a reference that summer was over and that she had missed it. The only games that the Tigers played in New York that season were in April, due to the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike.
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“The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.”
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