Goofs

After Kelly Leak's home run gives the Bears their first win of the season (against the White Sox), the footage of the Bears celebrating at home plate around Kelly shows a Yankee catcher. This footage was actually from the alternate ending which had the Bears winning the final game against the Yankees.

When Rudi Stein is first asked by Buttermaker to let himself get hit by a pitch, he is following Kelly Leak in the batting order. (Kelly had just been walked intentionally.) When he's asked the second time, he's following Ahmad in the batting order.

After Tanner has a fight with a Yankee player at the snack bar, he is placed in a garbage can by the Yankee player. Lupus picks up Tanner's hat and places it in Tanner's lap right side up. The next shot shows the hat in his lap upside down.

On picture day, Buttermaker has his arms crossed trying to hide his beer. He then has his arms uncrossed as the photographer snaps the picture. When the camera cuts back, he is again standing in the original pose, with arms crossed trying to hide the beer.

When the Bears are playing the Yankees in the championship game, the announcer states that the bears are leading 1-0. However, a later shot of the scoreboard shows that the Yankees were actually the first team to score.

Several times during the course of the movie, the league standings are displayed, but the numbers shown are mathematically impossible. The total number of wins and losses for all teams in a baseball league must be even (since there is a winner and loser of each game). But every time the standings are shown in this film, those numbers don't match. In one scene, the standings show every team with a .500 record or better, which cannot happen mathematically.

In the championship game the Yankees' pitcher was allowed to remain in the game despite the manager making his second trip to the mound in an inning. The first trip was to discuss strategy and the second trip was to strike the pitcher after he threw at a Bears' batter.

(at around 35 mins) A kid is wearing a T-shirt with a French flag on it, but the colors are inverted; the French flag is blue-white-red (not red-white-blue). It's not a mirror effect, because the word "FRANCE" can be read.

When Coach Turner wants his son to intentionally walk Kelly Leake, he signals this by gesturing toward his right side meaning four outside pitches. That is how intentional walks are done, but the universal sign asking for one, at any level, is for the manager or coach to hold up four fingers.

However, the coaches of many youth baseball teams are parents who may not know the intricacies of baseball's universal signals or may have developed their own signals while coaching.

While in the equipment room, a sign says "No Alcoholic Beverages Allowed", yet Buttermaker is drinking a can of Budweiser inside the equipment room.

This is not, however, a character error, as it's been indicated that Buttermaker obviously does not care about "rules" regarding drinking.

As the center fielder, Kelly is the outfield "general" and has the right to any ball he can reach. The other players should not be upset about him being a "ball hog".

It has to be realized that this is a Little League game and not the Major Leagues. The preteen kids on the team want to participate, and it's natural they would get upset if one kid is "hogging" the ball.

After the first game of the season is over, the opposing coach calls Buttermaker "Butterworth".

This is either an intentional error to make fun of the coach's name by likening him to Mrs. Butterworth or simply an error of not remembering Butterworth's name.

It is surprising that Turner was not evicted from the game for striking his son.

It's actually not surprising as "Artistic License" often is used in movies, and Turner is portrayed as the type of coach who would hit his son. (Also, per IMDb Guidelines, Unacceptable Goofs include: "Artistic license: Please allow for artistic license on the part of the filmmakers. Most movies and TV shows are not meant to perfectly reflect reality as you experience it.")

After Kelly Leak gets his last hit against the Yankees in the championship game, he runs to first. As he rounds first base, he has to swerve to his left to avoid hitting the camera that is set up to get the shot.

(at around 1h) It is clearly a male pitching not Tatum O'Neal, the body type and hair are both different from O'Neal's.

Kelly crashes his bike into the fence and the cop is grabbing his arms behind his back, as if to handcuff him. At one point Kelly's right arm comes loose and he immediately puts it behind his back again as if to HELP the cop arrest him.

In the final game, when Tanner kicks the Yankee in the groin for spiking Amanda, the Yankee player starts to reach for his groin well before Tanner kicks it.

It is never explained why Kelly, who is such a gifted athlete, can't be used as a pitcher. After Amanda is removed as pitcher, for some reason Buttermaker always replaces her with the inept Rudy Stein.

Poster in the equipment room has multiple misspellings of "equiptment".

Buttermaker tells Amanda to show him a curve ball. She says the next pitch will be "right between the eyes" and throws a fastball.

After Buttermaker removes some of his regular players during the championship game, Toby begs to be reinstated back into the game. In baseball, a player can't return to a game after they have been removed.

Buttermaker should not remove all the beer cans from the bucket Amanda is using to ice her arm. Removing them only causes the water level to drop and make it more difficult for her to submerge her arm.

When Buttermaker first pulls up to the ballpark, he cracks open a can of beer and pours out some to make way for some whiskey to be added. It's unlikely a heavy drinker would waste beer by pouring it out rather than drinking it to make room for the liquor.