the film be overly sentimental and over dramatic . moreover and in spite of the lavish attention to period baseball with the appearance of cgi stadium along with period uniform and glove and it seem to me that they fail to understand a simple fact of baseball . in the final game of the world series and play in detroit and the main character and joe and run out on the field to play defense for the visiting pittsburgh pirate to start the game . the visit team always bat first and the home team take the field first . a gross error of judgment . i also agree with the other poster about the huge number of homer and long ball be out of place in the game of that era .