Well this is cool:
In honor of the 25th anniversary of the movie Major League, Topps will produce commemorative versions of its 1989 cards featuring the fictional Cleveland Indians.
That’s pretty exciting on its own, but it opens up an interesting question (for the nerds among us, at least): Who’s in charge of creating stats to fill up the backs of the cards?
Are they consulting the film’s writers? Stats seem like potentially important source material for the events in the movie. How good of a hitter was Roger Dorn when he landed his big contract? And how long had Eddie Harris been getting by on guile and snot?
Do they bother listing Rick Vaughn’s numbers from the California Penal League, or do they just go with a one-sentence blurb to explain how “Wild Thing” wowed scouts with his velocity?
The (very small fraction of) people (who have nothing at all better to do than wonder about this stuff) demand answers.