The Getaway (1994 film) trust anybody or anything. They can't trust their colleagues. They seemingly can't trust each other. And when mistrust occurs, it breeds violence and havoc." Basinger says her views were incorporated into rewrites of the script by Amy Jones. She liked them and accepted the role. Basinger: There's something going on between us here that was never developed between Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw [sic]. The movie asks all sorts of questions about our relationship. I'd said to Alec that if we did this together, I wanted it to be more of a partnership movie than the first. I wanted to
John McGraw umpires." Voigt also wrote that McGraw had a reputation as a "dirty player" as of 1895 that was "the talk of the league." By 1895, some were singling out McGraw for his mouth." In 1899, the "Pittsburg Leader" said the following after he was "as quiet as a lamb" one day at Pittsburgh: "McGraw, although having the reputation of being a rowdy ball player, has never shown any rowdy tactics in this city." McGraw figures prominently in an Orioles-spiked-umpires recollection in Fred Lieb's 1950 "The Baseball Story", which quotes 1890s umpire John Heydler, later a National League president, as saying: