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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The theme music by Music/RandyNewman is epic in its own right. [[https://youtu.be/K2NOaWLcPkI "Prologue 1915-1923"]] and [[https://youtu.be/gjk3RsytFZg?t=176 "The Final Home Run"]] have become RecycledTrailerMusic.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: In the GiveMeASword scene, when Hobbs says to the Knights' batboy, Bobby, "Go pick me out a winner," the boy, who Hobbs taught to make his own regulation baseball bats, brings him back a bat Bobby himself made, named "Savoy Special". The look that Roy gives Bobby makes it clear to everyone that Hobbs understands precisely how much this bat means to the young man, and what it means that Hobbs is being allowed to use it.
** Add a little bit of FridgeBrilliance and Bobby becomes squire to Roy's "Knight."
* HilariousInHindsight:
** When we see the almost-literal WhamShot of [[spoiler: the Wonderboy bat split in half]] at the climax, the soundtrack plays three notes virtually ''identical'' to the first three notes of the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' theme. That show’s third season episode “[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E17HomerAtTheBat Homer at the Bat]]” would in turn spoof this film’s many [[SignatureScene Signature Scenes]], including [[spoiler: Wonderboy’s eventual fate.]]
** "Wonderboy" was the late UsefulNotes/{{NASCAR}} Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt's nickname for his [[{{FriendlyRivalry}} rival]] and fellow Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon. Gordon, for his part, has always hated it.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: If you are a baseball fan and you ''don't'' think that Roy's final at-bat was amazing, then you are a liar and aren't a real baseball fan. And on a less specific superlative, for anyone else it is awesome because it is about as dramatic a happy ending as you can get in a film.
* NarmCharm: The film is so shamelessly baroque and sentimental that it zooms past SweetnessAversion and {{Glurge}} to become genuinely moving.
* SignatureScene: Roy's home run taking out the field lights to make them explode like they were fireworks.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The theme music by Randy Newman sounds suspiciously like Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man".
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