When Roger Maris is on his final shot to get the 61st homerun in the same amount of games as Babe Ruth, he misses by hitting the ball with a check swing. When he hits it, the ball is traveling to his left, towards third base. In the next shot, the first baseman picks it up and tags out Roger! [In the movie when Roger's check swing is in the infield against the Orioles, it is the pitcher, not the first baseman, who picks up the ball and tags him out in his last at bat.]61* (2001) - 3 corrections
Directed by Billy Crystal, starring Anthony Michael Hall, Barry Pepper, Bruce McGill, Thomas Jane
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When Roger Maris is on his final shot to get the 61st homerun in the same amount of games as Babe Ruth, he misses by hitting the ball with a check swing. When he hits it, the ball is traveling to his left, towards third base. In the next shot, the first baseman picks it up and tags out Roger! [In the movie when Roger's check swing is in the infield against the Orioles, it is the pitcher, not the first baseman, who picks up the ball and tags him out in his last at bat.] In many of the games, Yogi Berra was annouced as a left fielder, when he was in fact a catcher. [In 1961, Yogi Berra played 87 games in left field, and 15 as a catcher.] In one scene, the Yankees are playing the Twins. The Twins didn't exist until the following year when they moved from Washington. [The Minnesota Twins' innaugural season was in 1961. Owner Calvin Griffith made the annoucement to move the team from Washington, DC to Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota on October 26, 1960.]You may also like: The Punisher | Field of Dreams | Stigmata | Four Brothers | Footloose