He was announced as the new Tigers manager just one day later.

"Losing used to be an embarrassment to me," the Tiger manager was saying now.

"Don't ever try to embarrass my players," the Tiger manager said later.

Tracewski, on occasion, filled in as the Tigers interim manager.

"It's not really the oblique-oblique," said the Tigers manager.

When Jim Campbell, the Tiger general manager, was informed of this, he threw up his hands in despair.

Showalter then happened to telephone Anderson to discuss the situation, and the Tiger manager quickly softened his stance.

Tiger manager, the late Sparky Anderson, who was managing the team in real life, appears frequently in the movie.

He said the Tigers general manager, Bill Lajoie, never offered more than a one-year contract extension through 1989.

Sparky Anderson, the Tigers manager, says there is nothing tricky about the Robinson technique.