20 Things You Didn’t Know About Moneyball

11. Dodger Stadium Doubled As Eight Baseball Stadiums Throughout The Movie

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Though the production was able to secure the use of Fenway Park for a single day, there wasn't enough money in the movie's budget to actually travel across the United States and shoot scenes in all of the stadiums visited by the Athletics.

Instead, some production design magic was employed to transform Dodger Stadium into eight different ballparks throughout the movie, dressing the stadium to resemble the intended counterparts as closely as possible.

Watching the movie itself, you'd likely never know that a major corner was being cut.

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