History Trivia / MajorLeague

* {{Corpsing}} The actor who played one of Rachel Phelp's attendants/bodyguards just barely holds back a grin when Donovan blows a raspberry to Phelps during the climactic game.

** The scenes set in the Indians' home park were actually filmed in Milwaukee's County Stadium, then-home of the Brewers. Averted, however, in the case of the spring training scenes, which were filmed at Tucson's Hi Corbett Field, which was the Indians' actual spring training park at the time.

* FocusGroupEnding: An alternate ending that was filmed would have revealed that the entire film was a BatmanGambit on the part of Rachel Phelps. She would have revealed to Lou that the team was bankrupt and unable to afford top flight players, so she decided to take a chance on unproven players from the lower leagues, whom she personally scouted, and talented older players who were generally considered washed up. She tells Lou that she likewise felt that he was the right manager to bring the ragtag group together. Phelps made up the Miami scheme and adopted a catty, vindictive persona to unify and motivate the team. As the players believed that she wanted the Indians to fail, she was able to conceal that the team could not afford basic amenities such as chartered jet travel behind a veil of taking them away to spite the players. However, test audiences preferred having Phelps as a straight villain so this was cut.

* ThrowItIn: Creator/DennisHaysbert was sucked into the moment when he hit Pedro Cerrano's climactic home run for real and forgot to drop his bat before running the bases. This was kept because it worked for the scene.

* ModestyTowel: Averted with an angry Lou (during the SpeakOfTheDevil scene below); she sees him full frontal (thankfully, we don't):
-->'''Phelps''': Don't you think you oughta cover yourself with a towel first, Mr. Brown?
-->'''Lou (arms crossed)''': We're out of towels, and I'm too old to be divin' into lockers.
-->'''Phelps''': I can take it if you can.
* TheOtherDarrin:
** Creator/OmarEpps replaced Creator/WesleySnipes as Willie Mays Hayes
** The second movie mocks this by showing how Hayes spent his off-season... starting a movie career as an action hero (which is what Snipes did in RealLife).

** Bob Uecker was in the middle of his long solid career as a RealLife game announcer for the Milwaukee Brewers. After the first movie came out he did more national games and World Series coverage during TheNineties.