1987 pennant
I loved the line when he said yes, his heart had been broken; "In 1987 when we lost the pennant." I was in Minneapolis then, and remember that afternoon at the elementary school where I was working, the special ed teacher was going up and down the halls shouting the score everytime it changed in that last game of the American League pennant race. Oh, the excitement! When the announcement came that the Twins had won, and would be in the World Series, we went nuts. My kids and I went to the Metrodome with 55 thousand other people to welcome the Twins triumphal return from Detroit several hours later. What a heady moment!
I thought Costner did a really good job in this film, although I didn't think the screenplay was as good as Bull Durham, where he also played a baseball player toward the end of his career.