History YMMV / AngelsInTheOutfield

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The Angels ceased calling themselves the "California Angels" in 1996 and are now known as the "Los Angeles Angels"[[note]]Which was their original name from 1961 to 1965. They went by the "Anaheim Angels" from 1997 to 2004 and by the "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim" from 2005 to 2015[[/note]].

* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Tony Danza gives a genuinely heartfelt and moving performance as Mel Clark.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The Angels ceased calling themselves the "California Angels" in 1996 and are now known as the "Los Angeles Angels"[[note]]Which was their original name from 1961 to 1965. They went by the "Anaheim Angels" from 1997 to 2004 and by the "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim" from 2005 to 2015[[/note]]

** Did Roger's father decide to give up custody since he said they could be a family again when the Angels win the pennant and are now suddenly winning games, or because he recognized that he wouldn't be in the right financial situation to support his son anytime soon

** Did Roger's father decide to give up custody since he said they could be a family again when the Angels win the pennant and are now suddenly winning games or, because he recognized that he wouldn't be in the right financial situation to support his son anytime soon

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/JosephGordonLevitt plays Roger, Creator/DermotMulroney plays his estranged father, and Creator/AdrienBrody, Creator/NealMcDonough, and CreatorMatthewMcConaughey have early roles as members of the Angels ball team.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Roger, Dermot Mulroney plays his estranged father, and Adrien Brody, Neal [=McDonough=], and Matthew [=McConaughey=] have early roles as members of the Angels ball team.

** Did Roger's father decide to give up custody when he did because he recognized that he would not be in the right financial situation to support his son anytime soon or, since he said they could be a family again when the Angels win the pennant and are now suddenly winning games, decides to just give up custody now before the pennant?

** Ranch is fired after verbally berating George Knox on the air for sticking with a visibly gassed Mel Clark with the game hanging in the balance, with a pitch count over ''150'' at that point. In UsefulNotes/The2000s and TheNewTens, with statistical analysis showing pitching effectiveness decreasing exponentially after 100 pitches, advanced studies into arm injuries due to workloads, and an infamous managerial gaffe involving the 2003 Red Sox[[note]]manager Grady Little coming out but deciding to stick with his visibly wilting and fatigued ace Pedro Martinez in the late innings of Game 7 in the American League Championship Series, despite numbers backing Pedro's ineffectiveness past the 100-pitch mark; Pedro would give up the lead, the Yankees would win on a dramatic extra-inning home run by Aaron Boone, and Grady Little would lose his job as a result[[/note]], history would be more on Ranch's side in time.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Roger, and Adrian Brody, Neal [=McDonough=], and Matthew [=McConaughey=] have early roles as members of the Angels ball team.

* HilariousInHindsight: At the hearing, Maggie's WhatTheHellHero speech mentions how no one laughs at a professional football player who drops to one knee after a touchdown. Fast forward to 2011 and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tim_Tebow_Tebowing.jpg Tebowing]]

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: For most of the 1994 film, the characters don't believe in themselves to win but rather they believe in angels coming in and blatantly cheating in their favor, costing hard-working opposing athletes their livelihood for the sake of a little kid with a terrible case of SarcasmBlind. In contrast, the angels in the original film were more sparks of inspiration that had the coach push all the right buttons for his team. [[note]] It's easy to miss, but one of the montages does show that, despite how crazy some of the plays are, the team begins to rely less and less on the actual angels as they begin to legitimately get better. And, as Al states, the championship is all on them. Of course, that's little consolation to the teams the angels screwed along the way, like the A's falling victim to Al's sentient baseball off the bat of Hemmerling, so the end result is a trope that is still valid. [[/note]]

** Ranch is fired after verbally berating George Knox on the air for sticking with a visibly gassed Mel Clark with the game hanging in the balance, with a pitch count over ''150'' at that point. In UsefulNotes/The2000s and TheNewTens, statistical analysis showing pitching effectiveness decreasing exponentially after 100 pitches, advanced studies into arm injuries due to workloads, and an infamous managerial gaffe involving the 2003 Red Sox[[note]]manager Grady Little coming out but deciding to stick with his visibly wilting and fatigued ace Pedro Martinez in the late innings of Game 7 in the American League Championship Series, despite numbers backing Pedro's ineffectiveness past the 100-pitch mark; Pedro would give up the lead, the Yankees would win on a dramatic extra-inning home run by Aaron Boone, and Grady Little would lose his job as a result[[/note]], history would be more on Ranch's side in time.

** Ranch is fired after verbally berating George Knox on the air for sticking with a visibly gassed Mel Clark with the game hanging in the balance, despite a pitch count over ''150'' at that point. In UsefulNotes/The2000s and TheNewTens, statistical analysis showing pitching effectiveness decreasing exponentially after 100 pitches, advanced studies into arm injuries due to workloads, and an infamous managerial gaffe involving the 2003 Red Sox[[note]]manager Grady Little coming out but deciding to stick with his visibly wilting and fatigued ace Pedro Martinez in the late innings of Game 7 in the American League Championship Series, despite numbers backing Pedro's ineffectiveness past the 100-pitch mark; Pedro would give up the lead, the Yankees would win on a dramatic extra-inning home run by Aaron Boone, and Grady Little would lose his job as a result[[/note]], history would be more on Ranch's side in time.