Trivia for
Bad News Bears (2005) More at IMDbPro »

• Casting calls for actors with baseball skills were held in: Phoenix, Los Angeles, Toronto, Chicago, Dallas, Vancouver, New Orleans, Atlanta and Seattle, Orlando,FL and Washington D.C.
  
  
• In the trailer, the baseball bat with the film's title on it says, "Est. 1976", this was the year the original film was released.
  
  
• When looking for a local business to sponsor the team, Buttermaker tries a business called "Chico's Bail Bonds" which sponsored the team in the original.
  
  
• Despite the remake having a higher MPAA rating than the original (PG-13 verses PG), the ratings board would not allow the remake to feature Coach Morris Buttermaker drinking alcoholic beer in the dugout as he had in the original. Strangely enough the board was fine with him spiking his non-alcoholic beer with hard liquor.
  
  
• The character Matthew Hooper is named after Richard Dreyfuss's character in Jaws (1975).
  
  

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