It was later widely reported that the main reason why Wade Boggs agreed to appear in this episode was because he had a mistress who lived in Anaheim, California. Boggs took advantage of having a free trip to California and took two days off from spring training.
Cliff offers to begin his poetry reading with "The Ballad of Dead Ladies" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. As with so many other facts cited by Cliff, this one is incorrect. "The Ballad of Dead Ladies" was written by 15th-Century French poet Francois Villon; it became well known in the Anglophone world after it was translated by Rossetti's younger contemporary Algernon Charles Swinburne.
Wade Boggs joked to his teammates that he would bring back a pair of Kirstie Alley's panties. Instead, he showed them those of his mistress Margo Adams.
This is the first appearance of Robert Desiderio as Gary. He would appear in two more episodes (S10.7, and S11.19). Gary was played by Joel Polis in three other episodes (S4.9, S7.10 and S9.2). Due to the infrequency of the appearances of the character, few viewers ever realized he was played by two actors.
Kirstie Alley starred in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), while Phil Morris appeared in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) as well as Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Star Trek: Voyager (1995), and as a child in Star Trek (1966). Kelsey Grammer also had a cameo on an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987).