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Early on in the movie, the "MOVIENEWS CORP" newsreel about the "AMERICAN ALL-STARS TOUR JAPAN", which actually occurred with Babe Ruth and Moe Berg in 1934, is incorrectly dated as "MCMXLIV", meaning "1944". Also, when Berg first visits with Bill
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