 When Stan Ross is walking to the plate with 2,999 hits (the first  time...at the beginning of the movie), the announcer states "Will  this be the at bat..." then states the date..."that Stan Ross hits  number 3000." This is almost identical to the real television call  by Joe Buck when Mark McGwire was sitting on 61 home runs and  stepped to the plate and hit number 62 to break the single season  home run record set by Roger Maris in 1961.