Okay MLB/Godfather fans....a little trivia/blooper: When Sonny was shot to pieces at the toll booth, he had an MLB game’s broadcast playing on his car’s radio. What was the game being broadcast that he was listening to? Why is it considered a ‘Blooper’ that he had that game on his radio?
Okay, okay....I know it is not that tough but it’s all I got on short notice combining MLB and The Godfather!!!
Sonny’s death to Wednesday, October 3, 1951 due to the radio broadcast he is listening to. Indeed, Sonny is clearly listening to WMCA broadcaster Russ Hodges calling the Dodgers-Giants playoff game played that day, a half-inning before Giants outfielder Bobby Thomson hit the infamous “shot heard ’round the world” that helped win the National League pennant for the Giants. However, context clues show that Sonny died no later than 1948 and very possibly the year before. This means that Sonny is listening to a radio broadcast of a game three or four years later. While some can possibly call this an atmospheric anomaly, it is simply the case of filmmakers choosing an era-appropriate baseball game for a background radio. None of the filmmakers could have imagined that: