Marks the second appearance of Bill Dial as the station engineer, Bucky Dornster. He was included in the story since the regular cast of eight characters was one short of the nine people needed to field a softball team.
According to a press release, it was so hot at Shadow Ranch Park (where "Baseball" was taped), Loni Anderson's nail polish wilted and Richard Sanders took to lying under a bench when he wasn't needed in a scene.
Ross Bickell was Loni Anderson's husband at the time of the taping. He was also one of the hopefuls who auditioned for the role of Andy Travis.
There was no audience at Shadow Ranch Park; a pre-recorded laugh track was dubbed where a test audience thought certain sequences were funny. Other WKRP episodes that were produced without an audience include The Airplane Show (1980), Real Families (1980), The Baby (1980), Bah, Humbug (1980), Daydreams (1981), Straight from the Heart (1981), Circumstantial Evidence (1982), and Fire (1982).