The film erroneously refers to the National League's 1962 New York expansion team as "the Metropolitans," purportedly named after a long-forgotten 19th-century American Association club. The name "Mets" was chosen in part as derivative of the franchise's original corporate name, New York Metropolitan Baseball Club, Inc., but unlike the NBA's Knicks whose actual name is the New York Knickerbockers the Mets were never the "New York Metropolitans"; they have always been, simply, the Mets.