Helgeland and the production designer, Richard Hoover, re-create the shabbiness and the discomforts of pre-television baseball before the big money poured in the cruddy, dun-colored dressing rooms and the scrappy fields.
The internet's erasure of geography lets people have a flutter without having to leave their living-rooms for the Bellagio's bombast or the shabbiness of the local dive (see article).