Random Movie Trivia - Major League

Here is the next edition in our weekly Random Movie Trivia post.  Enjoy:

Major League

• Charlie Sheen was a high school pitcher who was offered a baseball scholarship to the University of Kansas. In the movie he threw a 101 mph fastball, but in reality Sheen could throw in the high 80s. This made it easier to simulate the fastball on film.
• Sheen also admitted in a Sports Illustrated interview that he used steroids while preparing for this movie because he believed that it would help him throw the ball faster.  (Why would he need to do that?  Because he is insane and it took us way too long to figure that out.)
• Was originally titled "Dead Last".
• When Cerrano hits the home run in the final game against the Yankees, it was not in the script for him to run around the bases with the bat in his hand. What actually happened was that Dennis Haysbert actually did hit a home run during the take and was so shocked that he forgot to drop the bat before he started running.
• Director David Ward made this movie because as a lifelong Indians' fan, this was the only way he would ever see them win anything.
• The opponent slugger known as Yankees home run threat Haywood was played by former Milwaukee Brewers' pitcher, Peter Vuckovich. Peter Vuckovich never hit a single home run in his entire 11 year major league career.
• Many tricks were used to make the actors seem like they were as good as their characters. For example, the pitching mound in a real baseball stadium is 60'6" away from the home plate, but to give the impression that Charlie Sheen's 85 mph fastball was traveling 100 mph, they moved the mound up 10 feet and shot from behind the plate so the viewer wouldn't notice the distance difference. Also, all Wesley Snipes' running scenes are shown in slow motion to give the impression that he is running faster than he actually is.
• The director cast Bob Uecker as the Indians' announcer, Harry Doyle, because he saw him in a couple of Miller Lite commercials.  It wasn't until Bob showed up on set did David learn that he actually was a baseball announcer and had been for 20 years.

"Turns out he has been insane all along, how did we not see this coming?"