As I said in another segment of the movie, this is an actual clubhouse in the old Yankee Stadium. Not the Yankee clubhouse, though it was similar. It was an auxiliary clubhouse down the hall from the visitors' along the left field line. The pillars are a dead giveaway. By the 1990's it was used for press conferences and Sunday masses. I know the ballpark from then as a reporter, but I asked someone who was working for the Yankees when this movie was being filmed. Also, several scenes were filmed at Shea, both on the field and in the passages under the stands. Major League Baseball gets a thank-you in the closing credits. The Mammoths all wore numbers being worn by then-current Yankees for a reason. De Niro wore Thurman Munson's No. 15, Michael Moriarty Mel Stottlemyre's No. 30, Vincent Gardenia Ralph Houk's No. 35. That made it easier to use actual Yankee footage in the movie. There is a scene where Munson makes a play at the plate. That's not De Niro.
Good observation, another 'giveaway' are the player number signs over the lockers - they was used in the visitors clubhouse. The player nameplates on the back wall of the lockers were added for the production. The lockers dated back to 1947-8 when team president Larry McPhail moved the Yanks from the 3rd base side of The Stadium to the 1st base side, both clubhouses were upgraded. Another scene using this clubhouse was during the 'rain delay' when Piney sings "Streets of Laredo', that was followed with the wide pan of the stands and field of original Yankee Stadium - great and rare color footage of OYS.
Yes and no, there is a line that Gardenia says in a later clubhouse scene "...you won't be home watching it (World Series) on electrical television..." Script writer stayed pretty close to what was in the book - except for scenes that were dropped.
@@wiedep Script writer was Mark Harris, who wrote the book. I think it's pretty rare in Hollywood for a book author to be allowed to do his own screenplay, at least without major interference.
