The Twenty-Four-Inch Home Run The Twenty-Four-Inch Home Run The Twenty-Four-Inch Home Run: And Other Outlandish, Incredible But True Events in Baseball History is a book about baseball lore written by sportswriter Michael G. Bryson. The title refers to the book's central story, about a game where Andy Oyler hit a baseball that became stuck in the mud 24 inches in front of home plate, allowing him to score an inside-the-park home run before the opposing team located it. All told, the book contains 250 such stories, including an anecdote about a team registering a triple play without touching the ball. Bryson also debunks several
Where the Boys Are never produced. Pasternak also announced plans to reunite Hamilton, Prentiss, Hutton and Mimieux in a romantic comedy "Only a Paper Moon" from a story by George Bradshaw, "Image of a Starlet". This became "A Ticklish Affair", and was made, but without any of those actors. Nonetheless there were a number of unofficial follow-ups. MGM liked Paula Prentiss and Jim Hutton as a team so much they put them together in three more movies: "Bachelor in Paradise", "The Honeymoon Machine" and "The Horizontal Lieutenant". MGM also made a number of other romantic comedies in the style of "Where the Boys Are",