Jerry says that Bob got the autographed baseball for himself, because he has a niece but not a nephew. However, Bob's sister Ellen has no children, and his wife Emily has no siblings, so Bob cannot have a niece either.
Moose Washburn strikes out in the bottom of the ninth inning in a Chicago Cubs home game while Bob and Emily watch in bed. Wrigley Field, home of the Cubs, didn't have lights installed until 1988 and thus did not host any night games until then. The brief TV shot of the game in Hartley's bedroom clearly showed it was not Wrigley.
Television scenes of a Cubs baseball game are not of a MLB game, high school maybe.
Bob places his mug in the office coffee machine, presses a button and then instantly pulls away a drink.
Bob critiques Moose Washburn's final swing in a televised baseball game. Bob was looking away from his TV screen at that moment and couldn't have seen it.
Vern Rowe was a strange choice to play Moose Washburn. He was 52 and looked it.
The oldest player to actually play in the major leagues was pitcher Julio Franco. He was
49 when he retired. Catching is a difficult position on the body. Even the great catchers,
like Yogi Berra retired in their early to middle 40's.
When Bob asks Moose Washburn his phone number, Moose replies that he has no telephone and therefore no phone number. The following day, Bob calls Moose on the telephone.