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• Crew or equipment visible: Trailer bed supporting Ray's van when he's driving through Boston to see Terrence Mann.
  
  
• Factual errors: "Shoeless" Joe Jackson actually batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
  
  
• Factual errors: When shoeless Joe Jackson brings the other banned members of the 1919 white sox to play at the field, one of them appears wearing catchers gear. None of the three players who caught games for the 1919 white sox were among the eight players banned.
  
  

• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): A number of the newspaper articles being read by Ray and Terrence in the Chisholm, Minnesota, newspaper office have the town name misspelled as "Chisolm".
  
  
• Factual errors: Doc Graham actually batted left-handed.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Ray is trying to find Doc Graham, he looks at the license plate on a car to see what year it was. The license showed it was 1971. The problem is, license plates were not renewed by placing a sticker with the year on it. Back then the whole license plate was replaced.
  
  
• Continuity: The young Doc Graham is played by Frank Whaley, who has very dark brown eyes. As an old man he is played by Burt Lancaster, who has very blue eyes.
  
  
• Factual errors: Doc "Moonlight" Graham states in the movie that he was born in Chisholm, Minnesota, when in real life he was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
  
  
• Factual errors: Moonlight Graham made his only major league appearance in 1905, not in 1922. Further, he died in 1965, not in 1972. However, in a showing of the film on AMC's "DVD-TV", it was stated that the filmmakers intentionally 'fudged' the date so that they could include the Nixon gag (the "Four More Years" poster in the store window).
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Ray and Karin Kinsella are on the tractor mowing down the corn field in preparation for building the baseball field, the power take off shaft which should be driving the mower is not rotating which means the mower is not operating.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Young Archie Graham hits a fly ball into center outfield; another runner, which some have confused with Graham, is seen scoring from third (making Graham's play a sacrifice fly).
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When "Beulah, the Angry PTA Mother" is challenged to step outside and throws her book to the ground, there is a noticeable delay before the book hitting the ground is heard.
  
  
• Continuity: Toward the end when Ray and his father are playing catch, and Annie turns on the lights, Mark's jeep is no longer parked next to the light pole. But in the next shot, it reappears again in the same spot.
  
  
• Factual errors: The game at Fenway Park between the Red Sox and the Athletics takes place on May 16th, because it was the only Red Sox/Athletics game at Fenway in 1988 in which Jody Reed hit first, as indicated by Ray's lineup card. The scoreboard clock says 10:32, but the actual game concluded at approximately 9:50 that night.
  
  
• Continuity: When Ray is driving around Boston, the weather jumps from sunny to rainy and back again between shots.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When the field lights are switched on, although there is only one circuit breaker by the house, the lights go on in groupings, as if there are multiple circuits.
  
  
• Plot holes: The gas station attendant in Boston tells Ray that Terence Mann lives "two blocks down, right hand side, the first door that don't have a chicken in the window is his." When Ray walks down the street, he goes into the first chicken-less door on the left hand side.
  
  
• Errors in geography: About midway through the film, when Ray and Terry leave Fenway Park, they are seen traveling "up" Landsdowne St., behind the left field wall, northbound. Landsdowne St. is a one way street headed in the opposite direction.
  
  
• Continuity: In one of the scenes where Ray is watching the Black Sox play at his field, Jim Doty is seen hitting a ball, and then running to first. However, when the camera shows the player on first base, it is not Jim Doty.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the opening montage, a graduation photo of Ray (who went to school in the 1960s) is shown. The version of the SPAM logo on Ray's shirt was introduced in 1987.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Chick Gandil mispronounces the pitcher, Eddie Ciccote's name. It is actually pronounced "See-Cot."
  
  

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