"I'm the player to be named later."
For my 10th Round selection,
Hot Buttery Topping is pleased to select in the
Sports category, one of the greatest baseball movies ever made,
Bull Durham.
Say what you will about the sport of baseball, but there have been some great movies made about America's Pastime, and this one of the best.
Trailer...
You could ask if Bull Durham is a baseball movie with a romance thrown in to keep the women interested, or a romance movie with baseball thrown in to keep the men interested. Truth is, it's probably a little of both. You could even say it's about the romance of baseball.
Kevin Costner stars as Crash Davis an (almost) career minor league catcher who has been sent to the "A" League Durham Bulls to provide guidance to the hot, new rookie pitcher Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh (Tim Robbins), who is described as having a million-dollar arm, but a ten-cent head.
Added to the mix is Annie Savoy (the superhot Susan Sarandon), a local woman who considers herself a worshiper at the Church of Baseball. Every season, Annie chooses one member of the Bulls to be her lover/student for the season. This season, she has narrowed her choices down to Crash and Nuke, however, Crash declares that after 12 years in the Minors, he doesn't "try out".
This leads to Annie asking Crash what he believes in (language)...
Eventually, Crash and Nuke come to an understanding and the Bulls go on a big winning streak. Minor League baseball isn't about wins and losses, it's about developing players for "The Show". In fact, neither Crash nor Nuke finish the season in Durham, but they both get what they wanted by the end of the movie.
Crash gets the players' attention by telling them about life in "The Show" (language)...
I was in the show for 21 days once - the 21 greatest days of my life.