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The Roundtable

Hope I can help the ball club: Ron Shelton on the making of "Bull Durham"

By Joe Donahue

Published August 19, 2022 at 11:33 AM EDT

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Bull Durham, the breakthrough 1988 film about a minor league baseball team, is widely revered as the best sports movie of all time. But back in 1987, Ron Shelton was a first-time director and no one was willing to finance a movie about baseball—especially a story set in the minors. But something miraculous happened and the new book, "The Church of Baseball" attempts to capture why.

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