June 22, 2017
Minor League Season Begins—Again
People asked Ron Shelton, again and again, if he was going to write a sequel to Bull Durham. He couldn’t bring himself to do it, and I’m glad he didn’t. […]
November 16, 2015
Crash Davis, Soul Man
Bull Durham (1988) begins with grainy black and white stills of Willie Mays, Pete Rose, Babe Ruth, a ball club of women in three quarter sleeves and skirts, a woman […]
February 28, 2014
The Movie Star Is Dead. Long Live the Movie Star. Part 3.
This is a continuation of a series of posts begun here and continued here and, though not quite on topic, here. I remember a long flight of stairs up in […]