Ernie Johnson, Pete Van Wieren, and Skip Caray were real Braves announcers. Johnson did play-by-play and commentary until 1999. Van Wieren worked for TBS and the Braves Radio Network. He was inducted into the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame in 2004, and retired in 2008. Caray is the son of the legendary Cubs announcer Harry Caray.
For years after the film's release, Braves announcers Skip Caray and Pete Van Wieren joked during game broadcasts about the tiny residuals they received from their appearances in the movie. Caray once quipped, "That check for thirty-five cents sure came in handy."
The film was taken away from director Hal Ashby in post production because Ashby had turned in too many scenes without the dialog written by Neil Simon.
According to an article in the October 2008 edition of Sports Collectors Digest, Topps briefly produced a 1984 Darryl Palmer card to promote the film. No one knows how many still exist, but the film did so badly at the box office that the cards have no collector value.
Unlike most Neil Simon screenplays, this was written directly for the screen. It also isn't based on his life or anything he had observed.
Ted Turner: a fan of baseball player Darryl Palmer. A scene with Turner walking through the Braves locker room and giving a pep talk to the team was cut from the finished film.
Steven Gustafson, Dennis Drew, Jerry Augustyniak, 10,000 Maniacs: ordering food while "All American Boy" plays.