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* [[Dawson Casting]]: 48-year-old Redford plays a teenaged baseball prospect in the opening sequence. Even after the flash-forward, he's too old to play a big league athlete. He tends to get forgiven because, y'know, it's ''[[Mr. Fanservice|Robert Redford.]]''

** And they make a minor plot point of his being "the oldest rookie", have other players calling him Grandpa, stuff like that.

* [[Expy]]: "The Whammer", played by Joe Don Baker, is obviously inspired by [[Babe Ruth]]. For that matter Hobbs is both a tremendous pitcher (he strikes out the Whammer) and a fearsome slugger, much as Ruth was in real life.

* [[The Film of the Book]]: Adapted from the novel by Bernard Malamud. Malamud's novel has a {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending]] in which Hobbs strikes out at the end and is disgraced}}, while the movie has a completely opposite ending.