Tom Hanks appears on the set of "A League of Their Own" in Evansville, Indiana, on Sept. 9, 1991.

If you took Tom Hanks to a baseball game, he probably wouldn't last nine innings.

The Oscar-winning actor, who starred in the 1992 sports dramedy "A League of Their Own," got candid on filming the baseball flick during an appearance on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" on Tuesday, Nov. 25.

The Penny Marshall-directed film, a fictionalized portrayal of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, starred Hanks as former baseball player Jimmy Dugan, who reluctantly manages the league's Rockford Peaches team.

"Every day, I played ball and ate frankfurters and talked to the girls all summer long," Hanks, 69, told Meyers. "This was the greatest gig on the planet."

However, not every scene was a home run for Hanks.

The actor went on to voice his frustration with filming a lengthy sequence, during which members of the Rockford Peaches commiserate over their struggle to attract fans to their games. Despite Dugan's appearance in the scene, Hank's character had minimal dialogue.

"I read the pages, and I had the very first line in the scene, and I also had the very last line in the scene," Hanks recalled. "And I knew if I didn't get out of that friggin' dugout, I was going to be shooting that scene for three-and-a-half days."

To avoid the long filming day, Hanks said he improvised a bit after delivering his first line, explaining that Dugan was stepping away to "give the lineup to the umpire." Hanks smoothly returned at the scene's conclusion to say his final line.

"Because of where the sun was, they had to shoot that for hours, in like, three successive afternoons," Hanks said. "And you know what I was doing while they were shooting? I was playing Three Flies Up and eating turkey franks, baby. Because I was smart enough to walk out!"

He concluded: "That's what pros do, baby! They read the script and say, 'I don't think I have to be in this scene.'"

Released in July 1992, "A League of Their Own," which starred Hanks alongside Geena Davis, Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell, grossed $107.5 million worldwide and earned Hanks an American Comedy Award for funniest supporting actor in a movie.

In 2012, 20 years after its debut, the film was inducted into the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. A TV series remake starring Abbi Jacobson, Chanté Adams and D'Arcy Carden premiered on Prime Video in 2022.

(This story was updated to correct a typo.)

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