Detroit Tigers greats lended their services for the film. Former Detroit manager Billy Martin played himself, and former Tigers’ players Norm Cash, Bill Freehan, Al Kaline, and Jim Northrup also appeared as themselves.
Unfortunately, he never gained massive success and was one strikeout shy of 300 for his career. Most likely, his most notable stat was that he gave up what The Babe and many people feel was the longest Homerun and Babe Ruth’s career while pitching for Detroit.
How is he going to accomplish this though? Currently, there is the Detroit Police Athletic League which has its new headquarters and a baseball diamond on the site where it once stood, so that would mean tearing down the new facility to accommodate his dreams.
As soon as the umpire goes to question the bat, Norm shows him the table leg, and the umpire almost falls over from laughter and he chucks it back towards the dugout.