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Jul 3, 2022 · Before he became a filmmaker, before he created what is widely considered the greatest baseball movie of them all, Ron Shelton toiled as an infielder in the minor leagues. He never made it to the ...
Jul 5, 2022 · Shelton, Ron. The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit. Knopf, 2022. In 1987, Ron Shelton was a first-time director, and Kevin Costner was not yet an actor whose presence would automatically greenlight a Hollywood movie.
Apr 26, 2023 · Ron Shelton is the writer and director of Bull Durham, White Men Can’t Jump, Cobb, Tin Cup, and Play It To The Bone.His new book The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham details his background as a minor league baseball player and the unlikely journey of his 1988 sports rom-com Bull Durham from conception to commercial and critical success.
Oct 6, 2023 · Among the few guarantees in life is that on any survey of great sports films, Ron Shelton’s name will appear more than once. The résumé of the minor-league ballplayer turned screenwriter and director boasts what is arguably the definitive baseball movie with Bull Durham (1988), along with loquacious, cockeyed looks at basketball (White Men Can’t […]
Jul 12, 2022 · A third baseman named Ron Shelton had taken off from LAX twenty-four hours earlier; a guy named Wayne Shelton was now starting shortstop for the Bluefield Baby Birds in the Appalachian League.
Jul 21, 2022 · Ron Shelton is 76 years old, his days as a minor-league baseball player now a half century ago and his breakthrough film as a writer and director a third of a century in the past.
Jun 15, 1988 · Bull Durham: Directed by Ron Shelton. With Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Trey Wilson. A fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him.
