As the bell rang, Creed appeared unconscious on the ropes, but he survived the flurry of blows when time ran out.Ward""s formulaic sports comedy began with the inheritance of a perennially losing team - the Cleveland Indians by widowed, ex-showgirl wife Rachel Phelps (Margaret Whitton), who eagerly schemed to move he team to sunny Miami, FL - but only if the team""s yearly attendance dropped significantly (below 800,000); to her surprise, the recruited misfit players on her inept and underdog team began to win games, and ultimately they joined together to prevent her from sabotaging heir game-play, and found themselves in the comeback climax pitted against the rival NY Yankees in the pennant playoff game for the division titleThe movie-site in Dyersville, Iowa celebrated its 30th Anniversary in mid-June of 2019 to commemorate "one of the most popular sports movies of all time.Nine Oscar nominations were awarded to the film, with only one win - Max Steiner""s stirring and Oscar-winning Best Score (Steiner""s third career Oscar).After their entrance, they disappear from her sight in the vestibule as they approach the stairs.At the top of the stairs, they reappear - she cringes backwards as she witnesses hem furtively whisper and giggle some more.Nicholson determines that escape is not only impossible but not permitted:Shears: Oh, I""d say the odds against a successful escape are about 100 to 1.