35 years ago today, Ferris Bueller had one day off...

 "Life Moves Pretty Fast. 

If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

 

(It's a bit of inside baseball, really...)

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Baseball Prospectus' Larry Granillo figured out that the game Principal Ed Rooney watches from the counter of the pizza joint was played June 5, 1985. An 11th-inning pop-up by the Atlanta Braves' Claudell Washington gave it away.

But here’s the rub: The scene wasn’t filmed that day. Actor Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller) and Alan Ruck (Cameron Frye) did their “swing batta” routine from seats down the left-field line on Sept. 24, 1985.

Assistant director Ken Collins figured out the date based on the film’s shooting schedule — the German-American Festival’s Von Steuben Parade occurred Sept. 21 — the powder-blue uniforms of the road team and the comical final score of Montreal Expos 17, Chicago Cubs 15. Collins told Baseball Prospectus he recalled that at least 30 runs were scored.