Major League (1989) - 14 corrections

Directed by David S. Ward, starring Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen, Dennis Haysbert, Rene Russo, Tom Berenger (add more)

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Entry Haywood (the big Yankees slugger) has a long mustache that extends downwards all the way to his chin in the style of a fu manchu. George Steinbrenner, the owner of the Yankees, would NEVER allow that. Under Steinbrenner's rule, no Yankee is allowed to have facial hair below the upper lip. Goatees, beards, and long mustaches would be shaved. [If this were real that would be true. However, there is no mention of Steinbrenner as the Yankees owner in the film. The Indians' owner is a stripper - that is not real either. Since this is a fantasy, "real" rules are suspended and the fu manchu is allowed.]
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Entry During the Oakland game (where Dorn tanks the ball), Taylor visits Vaughn on the mound. The home plate umpire is seen cleaning off the plate. Taylor returns to his position, inadvertently kicking enough dirt onto the plate to keep the umpire from seeing the edges. The umpire doesn't call time to clean it off, as evidenced by the plate still being dirty when the Oakland batter pops out to Taylor to end the game. [This is a mistake made by the umpire, not a movie mistake.]
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Entry Throughout the entire movie, it seems that Ricky Vaughn is both used in the starting role, and also as a closer in the bottom innings. Though not impossible, this situation is very unlikely in the major leagues. [Vaughn is a starting pitcher. He has quite a few complete games which explains his appearances in late innings. In the last game,(which was a one game tie breaker) he is used in a 'closer' status. This is not uncommon for big league teams, to use their best pitchers as closers in important games.]
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Entry When the Indians are playing the Yankees in the one game playoff, keep your eyes on the stadium clock in the background. At various points of the game the clock reads 10:20. [Considering the owner of the team was trying her best to get the team relocated to Miami, it makes sense that she wouldn't spend the money to fix the stadium clock.]
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Entry In the scene where The Wild Thing makes his major league debut, he comes in the game with a runner on second. He then proceeds to throw 12 straight balls (as Doyle says) and walks the bases loaded. However, throwing 12 straight balls would have walked a run home (the runner who was originally on second). Then when the Yankee hits his grand slam, the shot of the scoreboard shows only four runs instead of the five it should have shown. [There was no runner on base when he came in. Jake tells Rick that IF a runner reaches second, the first sign would be the indicator. Also, Harry Doyle says, "You can close the book on (pitcher), thank God." What that means is that the former pitcher left no inherited runners on base.]
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Entry On the last play of the game, after Hayes stole 2nd base, the batter Taylor gives the signs for a play he has in mind. He will bunt as Hayes runs for 3rd base. One the first pitch he points to the stands as if he intends to hit a home run where he is pointing. The pitcher knocks him down with an inside pitch and Hayes is not running. However, on the next pitch, Hayes is running. I think it is highly unlikely that the play called for Hayes to run on the 2nd pitch. [its commom to have a sign for the 2nd pitch and not the first. and Jake obviously knew the pitcher would throw at him when he "called his shot" so it is possible.]
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Entry In the opening day scene, Willie "Mays" Hayes hits a single. You see Harry Doyle (Bob Uecker) in the press box turn to his left and he and his colleagues give the thumbs up, including a woman wearing a light blue blazer. After Hayes is picked off first, Doyle turns to his colleges and they all gesture with the jerkoff motion, but that woman is nowhere to be seen in the pressbox when that happens. [It was almost a full minute between Hayes getting the single to when he was picked off. She had plenty of time to get up and leave.]
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Entry Throughout the movie Jake Taylor bats second in the lineup. No sane manager would ever put his 30-something-year-old catcher, with bad knees, in the two hole. Slow base runners tend to hit into a lot of double plays, which would negate Willie Mays Hays' speed advantage at the top of the line-up. [True, but remember, Lou Brown was working at a tire store before he was the Indians' manager. He isn't exactly Joe Torre.]
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Entry When Vaughn is pitching to Haywood in the ninth inning of the playoff game, Taylor, the catcher uses the conventional sign of one finger for a fastball. However, the bases are loaded. It is generally accepted that when there is a runner on 2nd base, as is the case here, different signs are used, so that the runner would not be able to tip-off the batter at to what pitch the pitcher will be throwing. [Jake's dialogue lets the batter know what's coming anyway.]
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Entry While they checked for red tags in their lockers after their last spring training game, the Indians were wearing their road grey uniforms. Willie Mays Hayes celebrated making the team by running outside and dancing under the Cleveland Stadium sign. If the game was played at the Indians' spring training facility, the Indians were the home team. They should have worn their home white uniforms. [The players were coming back from a road game to where the Indians' play their games which is why they had their "away" jerseys on.]
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Entry When Cerano is using a snake to draw a symbol on his locker to ward off the termination paper, he draws a symbol, but on the next shot of the same scene the symbol has changed. [He's not using the snake to draw the symbol; he's using the snake after the symbol has been drawn, to draw a crucifix form.]
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Entry The one-game playoff at the end of the movie takes place in Cleveland. However, the Yankees had obviously won the season series, therefore would have had the advantage of having the playoff game in their stadium. [Actually, when two teams are tied at the end of the regular season, the league holds a coin toss to determine where the playoff game will be held, regardless of who won the season series. Baseball only uses tiebreakers such as season series to seed two teams that have already qualified for the playoffs, but this is a byproduct of the Wild Card era in baseball, which was not in effect in 1989, when "Major League" was released.]
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Entry When Jake is at his girlfriend's apartment, he mentions she was an alternate swimmer (or diver) on the '80 Olympic team.  The US boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics. [Although the US boycotted the 1980 Olympics, Teams and alternates were picked. She could well have been an alternate, but not attended because of the boycott. Many athlete's dreams were shattered because of this political move.]
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Entry When Cerano hits the home run to tie the game versus the Yankees at the end of the movie he carries his bat with him around the bases - an automatic out. [Nowhere in the rulebook of baseball does it say that carrying a bat around the bases is an automatic out. As such, he would only be called out if he were to use that bat to his advantage. But since the ball was out of play (over the fence), no advantage would be gained and he would NOT be called out.]
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