Background
The film's opening montage is a series of somber blue-collar images of the Cleveland landscape synchronized to the score of Randy Newman's "Burn On": an ode to the infamous night in Cleveland when the heavily polluted Cuyahoga River caught fire.
Despite being set in Cleveland, the film was principally shot in Milwaukee because it was cheaper and the producers were unable to work around the schedules of the Cleveland Indians and Cleveland Browns. Milwaukee County Stadium, then the home of the Brewers, doubles as Cleveland Municipal Stadium for the film, although several exterior shots of Municipal Stadium were used, including some aerial shots taken during a sellout game. Both facilities have since been demolished: the playing field of County Stadium is now a Little League baseball field known as Helfaer Field, while the rest of the former site is now a parking lot for the Brewers' new home, Miller Park; the new Cleveland Browns Stadium, a football-only facility owned by the City of Cleveland and used by the Browns, sits on the site of its predecessor.
In addition, an error in continuity appears at the beginning of the film. It appears that Lou Brown is being promoted to manage the Indians from their farm club; in reality, the Mud Hens were at the time (and still are) the top minor league affiliate for the Indians' rivals, the Detroit Tigers. Also, it would have been impossible for him to have been the Mud Hens' manager for the previous thirty seasons; if this were the case he would have had to have managed the team from 1957 onward and the Mud Hens did not exist as a team from 1953 until 1967 (due to a name change in 1953 and a move to Wichita, Kansas in 1956).
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