The best Baseball Movie Ever made

Rating: 8/10 (9 October 2000)

My father being an ex minor league player and I went to see Bull Durham as soon as it came out, for the next week we talked about the movie and the people in the movie, baseball groupies are called baseball Annie's hence the name Annie Savoy for Susan Sarandon's character, the long rides on an old bus, the low pay, the teams filled with hot shots on the way up and career minor leaguers on the way down. Two ladies that my father went to church with complained to him how crude and vulgar the movie was, dad told them they toned it down for the movie if they had put the really raunchy baseball stories in the movie it would have gotten and x rating. Bull Durham captures the essence of minor league baseball with all the lows and few highs, the baseball scenes are great, the only flaw was Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh going from A ball which is rookie league jumping right to the major leagues it just does not happen that way, players even great players take a year or more to get a call up.