The Slugger's Wife - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[liam]

Most of the club scenes were shot at the Limelight, a famous Atlanta disco that closed in 1985.

[frederick]

Ernie Johnson, Pete Van Wieren, and Skip Caray were real Braves announcers. Johnson did play-by-play and commentary until 1999. Van Wieren worked for TBS and the Braves Radio Network. He was inducted into the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame in 2004, and retired in 2008. Caray is the son of the legendary Cubs announcer Harry Caray.

[jessica]

According to an article in the October 2008 edition of Sports Collectors Digest, Topps briefly produced a 1984 Darryl Palmer card to promote the film. No one knows how many still exist, but the film did so badly at the box office that the cards have no collector value.

[veronica]

Ted Turner: a fan of baseball player Darryl Palmer. A scene with Turner walking through the Braves locker room and giving a pep talk to the team was cut from the finished film.

[marc]

Herbert Ross was first choice as director, but he was unavailable.

[mathew]

The film was taken away from director Hal Ashby in post production because Ashby had turned in too many scenes without the dialog written by Neil Simon.

[lonnie]

In the original version of the script, the slugger's name is "Daryll Murray", who plays for the Atlanta Braves and wears #3. That was too close to real-life Braves all-star slugger Dale Murphy, who had his agent ask for a name change. As of 2019, Murphy has never seen the finished film.

[darrell]

Al Hrabosky: a baseball player.