The actual ball hit by Bill Mazeroski was found by a 14-year-old boy named Andy Jerpe, who subsequently lost it when his buddies talked him into using it for a sandlot game, and it was hit into some tall grass and never found.
Andie McDowell's character is wearing a baseball cap during the scene of her moving sale, the team name on the cap reads "Gaffney Indians", this is representative of her real-life hometown Gaffney, South Carolina.
In movie Liam Neeson plays Fergus Lamb; in movie ''Lamb'' (1985 and first top-billed starring role for Liam Neeson) his role is Brother Michael Lamb, a teacher in a Roman Catholic-run institution for troubled boys in Ireland.