According to Major League's Wikipedia page, there is an alternate ending to the movie. This is how it is described:
"In the theatrical release, the Indians are shown winning to a stunned Rachel Phelps, who now is presumed to not move the team to Florida due to increased attendance fueled by the team's success. In the alternate ending, a scene is added after the celebration...Lou is seen handing in his resignation, telling Phelps that he knows of her intentions and no longer wants to be a part of it.
Phelps tells Lou that she never intended to move the team. When she inherited the team from her husband, the Indians were teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, with no money for quality players or even creature comforts which mandated the switch from commercial jet flights to chartered turbo-prop planes. She continues by telling Lou that if she felt there was a manager who could motivate a team to succeed under such conditions, it was him.
Phelps however, re-exerts her authority by telling Lou that if he shares any bit of their conversation with anyone, she will fire him. She does succeed in getting Lou to take back his letter of resignation as he leaves her office."
I have a hard time believing that. The Rachel Phelps that is described above does not exist. She had every intention of moving the team, and that is dumb to think that she would pull Lou aside and say those nice things to him. There is no way any self respecting writer would have a character do a 180 in such a short time than Phelps would have, or have the basis for the entire movie to be a farce to motivate a crappy team. She's not smart, she's just greedy.
Also, has a manager ever turned in a letter of resignation immediately after securing a playoff birth?
Does anyone else think this is false? I guess the better question is....is anyone dumb enough to think this is true?
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this is a top five sports movie of all time, regardless of my hometown allegiances. the simple fact that it is NINETEEN years later is almost reason alone to signify its stability. (just think: theres dateable women out there born AFTER this movie was made...) Anyways, because of the wikipedia siting this ending could be classified as false, anyone has access to it, but according to IMDB dot com, there is a "wild thing" edition DVD and the ending is indeed included with it...but think about it this way...Rachel Phelps' character paved the way for cinematic overbearing owner females such as Christina Pagniacci from Any Given Sunday (added evidence of Major leagues "classicification", its influence on FUTURE great sports movies of all time).
As a point of reference, IMDB lists the following as trivia for the movie, but it actually used to have this listed as the alternate ending: "A scene featuring the wedding of Jake Taylor and Lynn Wells was shot and to occur after the Indians victory over the Yankees in the end but it was deleted because the producers felt that the wedding scene would put the focus of the movie on Jake and Lynn and not the team." Now they have since added the part you referenced. I don't know that I like either.
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