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Margaret Whitton

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Major League The Rewatchables
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Apex Mountain

Margaret Whitton and James Gammon receive clear Apex Mountain calls; Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, and Dennis Haysbert are debated against later or larger roles.

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  • Charlie Sheen’s movie peak is weighed against the much larger commercial run of Two and a Half Men.
  • Tom Berenger’s Major League performance is weighed against Platoon and his broader 1980s run.
  • Margaret Whitton and James Gammon are treated as definite Apex Mountain winners for this movie.
  • Dennis Hayesbert's later President Palmer role keeps Serrano from being an uncontested apex.
Major League The Rewatchables
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Half-Assed Internet Research

The research covers rejected roles, alternate endings, Milwaukee production logistics, baseball-player casting, injuries and stunts, Wild Thing history, sequel tensions, cast friendships, and Margaret Whitton’s dispute with Ron Shelton.

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  • Wesley Snipes reportedly turned down Do the Right Thing, although the role is not identified in the discussion.
  • Tom Berringer reportedly turned down the Crockett role on Miami Vice.
  • An alternate ending exposed Rachel Phelps as secretly supporting the team, but test audiences preferred her as a straightforward villain.
  • Milwaukee stood in for Cleveland during filming, including County Stadium and local crowd scenes.
  • About 20,000 extras were recruited for the Yankee-game crowd scenes.
  • Dennis Haysbert recalled being emotionally overwhelmed when the team ran onto the field as the crowd roared.
  • Former player Steve Yeager was the technical adviser, played the third-base coach, and doubled for Tom Berenger at catcher.
  • Former major-league player Willie Mueller played Yankees pitcher Duke Simpson.
  • The discussion says Chelcie Ross had pitched in college, although twenty years had passed since he had thrown a ball.
  • Steroid use reportedly helped raise Charlie Sheen's fastball for the movie.
  • A filming shoulder injury led Charlie Sheen to stop for cortisone shots and anti-inflammatories on the way to work.
  • Mitch Williams adopted Wild Thing with the Cubs, and the movie sequence is credited with creating the closer-entrance-music tradition.
  • Wesley Snipes complained about repeated sliding after getting strawberries, and Steve Yeager answered that he had done it for twenty years.
  • The fictional owner plans to move the team to Miami, and the discussion connects that premise to later Cleveland and Florida baseball history.
  • The hosts find Willie Mays Hayes’s wall of dirty black gloves creepy when imagining him bringing a date home.
  • A Jake-and-Lynn marriage scene intended to follow the Yankee game was filmed and deleted.
  • Dennis Haysbert's Yankee-game home run reportedly traveled 315 feet down the left-field line and hit the top of the wall.
  • In Dennis Haysbert's account, the close cast went to bars together and joined James Gammon’s poker games.
  • Charlie Sheen recalled James Gammon arriving badly hungover and called him an absolute warlock.
  • The oral history says Sheen coordinated women flying into Milwaukee, and Sheen compared it with women passing each other on the road during Young Guns.
  • Burnson mistakenly punched Charlie Sheen while filming the ending and left a welt.
  • Stacey Carroll's limited acting career and departure from the business are discussed in connection with Dorn's wife.
  • Margaret Whitton’s work on Major League and a settlement involving Ron Shelton and Bull Durham are discussed at the end of the research block.
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Casting What-Ifs

Dyan Cannon was wanted for Rachel Phelps before the studio chose Margaret Whitton; Jeremy Piven filmed a bench-jockey role that was deleted.

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  • The filmmakers wanted Diane Cannon as owner Rachel Phelps, while the studio wanted Margaret Whitton, who got the role.
  • Jeremy Piven played a bench jockey whose material was deleted from the finished movie.
  • Rene Russo’s appearance is noted as her first movie role, although it is biographical context rather than an alternate casting.
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Major League

1989

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1989 film

Bill Simmons · Rembert Browne

Aired April 10, 2019

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