Bull Durham

Bull Durham, motion picture about love and minor league baseball, written and directed by Ron Shelton, a former minor league baseball player. Released in 1988, the film won a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay. Every year devoted baseball fan Annie Savoy (played by Susan Sarandon) takes the most promising player on the Durham Bulls as her lover, in order to school that player in the philosophy and spirit of the game. This year Savoy gets involved with Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh (Tim Robbins), a pitcher with lots of power but very little control. She also has a romantic relationship with Crash Davis (Kevin Costner), an aging catcher the team hired to mentor LaLoosh.

Director

• Ron Shelton

Cast

• Kevin Costner (Crash Davis)
• Susan Sarandon (Annie Savoy)
• Tim Robbins (Ebby Calvin 'Nuke' LaLoosh)
• Trey Wilson (Joe 'Skip' Riggins)
• Robert Wuhl (Larry Hockett)
• Jenny Robertson (Millie)
• Max Patkin (Himself)
• William O'Leary (Jimmy)
• David Neidorf (Bobby)
• Danny Gans (Deke)
• Tom Silardi (Tony)
• Lloyd T. Williams (Jose)
• George Buck (Nuke's father)
• Carey Garland Bunting (Teddy)
• Gregory Avellone (Doc)
• Robert Dickman (Whitey)
• Timothy Kirk (Ed)
• Don Davis (Scared batter)
• Stephen Ware (Abused umpire)
• Tobi Eshelman (Bat boy)
• Henry G. Sanders (Sandy)
• Antoinette Forsyth (Ballpark announcer)
• Shirley Anne Ritter (Cocktail waiter)
• Alan Mejia (Chu Chu)
• Wes Currin (Baseball player)
• Butch Davis (Baseball player)
• Paul Devlin (Baseball player)
• Jeff Greene (Baseball player)
• Kelly Heath (Baseball player)
• Mo Johnson (Baseball player)
• Todd Kopeznski (Baseball player)
• John Lovingood (Baseball player)
• Eddie Matthews (Baseball player)
• Alan Paternoster (Baseball player)
• Bill Robinson (Baseball player)
• Dean Robinson (Baseball player)
• Tom Shultz (Baseball player)
• Sam Veraldi (Baseball player)
• El Chico Williams (Baseball player)

Awards

• New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay (1988): Ron Shelton

Quote

• Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh: “A good friend of mine used to say, ‘This is a very simple game. You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.’ Think about that for a while.”