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2 unusual facts about Fever Pitch


José Ayerve

It was included in the credit roll at the end of the 2005 film, Fever Pitch.

Mickey Bones

Mickey Bones made a personal appearance in the movie, Fever Pitch, and Oliver Stone's film, JFK.


Carl Yastrzemski

A record album of the Red Sox's 1967 season, aptly titled "The Impossible Dream", featured a song by DJ Jess Cain of praise for "The man they call Yaz", which included the line "Although 'Yastrzemski' is a lengthy name / It fits quite nicely in our Hall of Fame." (A link to the song appears below.) The song can be heard, and the album cover can be seen, in the apartment of Ben Wrightman (played by Jimmy Fallon) in the 2005 film Fever Pitch.

Gus Caesar

Arsenal fan Nick Hornby in his 1992 book Fever Pitch muses on Caesar's downfall, pointing out that Caesar had considerable talent as a youth (or else Arsenal would have never signed him in the first place).


see also

Rat trick

The "year of the rat" in south Florida reached a fever pitch as the Panthers made their only trip to the Stanley Cup Finals.

Wen Wei Po

On 21 May 1989, as concerns in Hong Kong about the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests were reaching fever pitch, the paper took a principled position opposing the enforcement of martial law by the PLA amid pro-democracy protests by students and political activists.