To get into shape to play baseball legend Honus Wagner, Matthew Modine was invited by Cal Ripken Jr to join the squad of the Ironbirds, a minor league baseball team owned by Ripken in Aberdeen Maryland. Modine's 17-year-old son accompanied him and the two warmed up with the team and also played in several training games with the squad.
Joe's original line about Ty Cobb in 1985 "By the way, in 1985, it's widely known that you were a homosexual." had to be changed because everyone kept laughing too loud.
Rosemary Dunsmore is only 13 years older Kristin Davis who plays her daughter.
Kristin Davis and the late Jackie Burroughs appear in Deck the Halls (2006)
The character of Mandy is fictional. Honus Wagner's real wife was named Bessie Baine Smith. They dated for eight years before marrying in 1916. The movie takes place in 1909.