"What I liked about these old ball parks," says Warren, "is that they still have wooden bleachers and they're not too sleek. They're kind of like my ball players. They're not polished yet."

College Park became the "Littleville" home field of the Buzz. Built in 1907 as part of the Citadel campus, College Park was home to the Charleston Rainbows Single-A minor league team and currently the practice field for Citadel baseball. The production filmed seventeen days at the "home" field.

Two days were spent at the historic Mirmow Field in Orangeburg. Built in 1947, Mirmow had exactly the quality that Warren and Crank needed for the feel of a small-town minor league park: well-preserved, classic Americana whose character has been preserved for 50 years.

The other ball parks utilized were the exteriors of Remley's Point (the sports complex of the College of Charleston), Collins Park (a small American Legion park in North Charleston) and the Summerville High School field. Joe Riley Stadium (a state-of-the-art complex modeled after Baltimore's Camden Yards and the home of the Charleston River Dogs) provided interiors dressed as Dorn's skybox at the Metrodome. The Charleston Coliseum doubled for the Metrodome's tunnels and locker rooms.

The versatile city of Charleston offered not only its semi-tropical climate and ball parks but various other locations which were suitable for the film's off-the-field sequences. Of particular interest was the historic Francis Marion Hotel in downtown Charleston, where four sets were constructed in the grand ballroom. Built in 1924 by famed architect W. Lee Stoddard, the recently restored hotel was named after General Francis Marion (the "Swamp Fox"), South Carolina's foremost hero of the Revolutionary War.

At the former Charleston Naval Base the production created a mini-studio, complete with staff offices, wardrobe, construction, transportation, casting and editing departments, as well as a screening room. The dismantled Naval commissary was transformed into a sound stage where several small cover sets were built.

The company completed filming in Minneapolis, Minnesota, shooting four days of the challenge game between the Buzz and the Twins inside the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. (Ironically, during the filming the Minnesota Twins franchise made the controversial decision to leave Minnesota for a temporary stadium in South Carolina.)

Bakula finishes, "I'm a huge baseball fan. I grew up playing baseball in St. Louis, a great baseball town. There's nothing like hanging out with a bunch of guys, batting the ball around or playing catch. It takes you right back to when you were a kid, throwing a ball against a wall or playing catch with your buddies or on a little league team. There's something kind of magical about that."

James G. Robinson Presents A Morgan Creek Production: "Major League: Back to the Minors," starring Scott Bakula, Corbin Bernsen, Dennis Haysbert, Takaaki Ishibashi, Jensen Daggett, Eric Bruskotter and Bob Uecker. The music is by Robert Folk. The film is edited by O. Nicholas Brown and Bryan H. Carroll. The director of photography is Tim Suhrstedt, A.S.C. The executive producers are Bill Todman, Jr. and Michael Rachmil. "Major League: Back to the Minors" is produced by James G. Robinson and written and directed by John Warren. It is distributed in the United States and Canada by Warner Bros., A Time Warner Entertainment Company, and internationally by Morgan Creek International, Inc. www.majorleague3.com Copyright (c) 1998 Morgan Creek Productions, Inc. (All rights reserved). This written material to be used solely for advertising, promotion, publicity or reviews of this specific motion picture and to remain the property of the studio.