Hard Ball

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1. #001

   Before Hard Ball's 2001 release, posters and advertisements reflected an R rating before being re-edited to dub over the children's use of the word "f." The film was later released with a PG-13 rating, though some profanity remained.

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2. #002

   Hard Ball is based on a true story.

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   All of the league's team names are taken from tribes in Africa.

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4. #004

   Hard Ball was Michael B. Jordan's first feature film in a named role.

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5. #005

   Hard Ball opened the same weekend as The Glass House (2001), which also starred Diane Lane. Hardball was number one at the box office, and The Glass House was second that weekend.

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6. #006

   The professional baseball game Conor takes the kids to was filmed at the now-demolished Tiger Stadium in Detroit. You can tell by the unmistakable Old English "D" on the seats.

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7. #007

   There are at least three players on the Kekambas team whose names we never learn and whom we never hear speak. The only ones who speak and are named are Andre Ray Peetes, Miles Pennfield II, Jefferson Albert Tibbs, Kofi and Jarius "G-Baby" Evans, Raymont "Ray-Ray" Bennet, Clarence and Jamal.

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8. #008

   Mark Robert Ellis, who coaches the Waatas team and informs Conor that he cannot start another pitch after 6:30, also served as the film's baseball coordinator.

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9. #009

   The scenes depicting the project's life were filmed at the Chicago ALBA public housing project, made up of four separate housing projects on Chicago's Near West Side. The baseball field is specifically surrounded by four 15-story Grace Abbot Homes.

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10. #010

    Only eight players are present in the closing scene, in which the team holds up its trophies.

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11. #011

    The basketball game between Chicago and Miami watched from outside the bar is actually the 2000 Continental Basketball Association Finals between the Yakima (Washington) Sun Kings and the La Crosse (Wisconsin) Bobcats, held at the Yakima Valley SunDome. Yakima won the game 109-93 to claim its second CBA championship.

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12. #012

    The number of players on the Kekambas team constantly changes throughout the film. At the start there are only eight players: Andre Ray Peetes, Jamal, Clarence, Jefferson Albert Tibbs, Miles Pennfield II and three others whose names are never mentioned. Later they are joined by three more boys, Raymont "Ray-Ray" Bennet and Kofi and Jarius "G-Baby" Evans, bringing the team total to eleven. Jamal is removed from the team halfway through the film because of a technical problem that reduces the team to ten players. Then, when "G-Baby" is killed in the drive-by attack at the end of the film, the total number of players comes to exactly nine.

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13. #013

    Carl Franklin was initially attached to direct.

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14. #014

    Lewis Colick and David Himmelstein had worked on earlier drafts of the screenplay.

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