'Major League III: Back to the Minors' (1998, Warner Bros/Morgan Creek, dir. John Warren, PG, franchise film) is the one film in which I personally appear (beside my own). I am standing in the crowd in the Metrodome in Minneapolis, holding my authored black-and-white DADT book, for perhaps ΒΌ second. For us 10000 extras, Morgan Creek bought us supper (it was a November 1997 Thursday evening, mild, temp in the high 40s outside; I walked over to the Metrodome from work at ReliaStar a mile away in downtown Minneapolis. I guess it was around 70 inside the dome. The dome has been torn down since and replaced with outdoor Target Field, on the other side of downtown, behind Block E.) Oh, yes, we had to sign releases. So much for my filmograpy. The title suggests the story.
Actually, the Washington Nationals baseball team is in this situation now, having traded away their star players under pressures of "moneyball" (reviewed elsewhere) including Juan Soto on Aug. 2, 2022. The hope is that the prospects can play at the major league level pretty much immediately. The results of the 2021 trade were underwhelming.
I was surprised that the Metrodome lasted less than 40 years. I saw a game in the old Bloomington stadium in 1974 when I was working for Univac.
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