"Bull Durham, the breakthrough 1988 film about a minor league baseball team, is widely revered as the best sports movie of all time. But its success was hardly preordained. Prior to the film's start, Ron Shelton was a former minor league baseball player and screenwriter with no directing credits to his name. No one wanted to finance his first directorial outing, or a movie about baseball--especially one set in the small-town minors. The jury was out on Kevin Costner as a potential leading man, the studio mysteriously refused to accept Susan Sarandon as the costar, and Tim Robbins was an unknown. There were doubts on every level. But something miraculous happened, and this book explains how and why"--Dust jacket flap.
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