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Bull Durham: A Baseball Romance

The Durham Bulls, a single-A Minor League Baseball team, are dealing with another sparsely attended losing season, with one thing working for them: Ebby Calvin LaLoosh, a hotshot rookie pitcher known for having a “million dollar arm, but a five cent head,” who has potential to become a major league talent.

Crash Davis Arrives to Mentor

“Crash” Davis, a 12-year veteran in the minor leagues, is sent down from Triple-A as the team’s catcher to teach LaLoosh to control his haphazard pitching. Crash immediately begins calling Ebby by the degrading nickname of “Meat”, and they get off to a rocky start.

Annie and the Church of Baseball

Thrown into the mix is Annie, a “baseball groupie” and lifelong spiritual seeker who has latched onto the “Church of Baseball” and has, every year, chosen one player on the Bulls to be her lover and student. Annie flirts with both Crash and Ebby and invites them to her house, but Crash walks out, saying he’s too much of a veteran to “try out” for anything. But before he leaves, Crash sparks Annie’s interest with a memorable speech listing the things he “believes in”, ending with, “I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days… Good night”.

Shaping Nuke into a Pitcher

Despite some animosity between them, Annie and Crash work, in their own ways, to shape Ebby into a big-league pitcher. Annie plays mild bondage games, reads poetry to him, gets him to try different mental approaches to pitching, and gives him the nickname “Nuke”.

Crash forces Nuke to learn “not to think” by letting the catcher make the pitching calls. After Nuke shakes off his signs, he twice tells the batters what pitch is coming, leading to both players hitting home runs; he also lectures him about the pressure of facing major league hitters who can hit his “heat” (fastballs). Crash talks about life in the major leagues, which he lived for “the 21 greatest days of my life” and to which he has tried for years to return.

The Rise and Fall

After a rough start, Nuke becomes a dominant pitcher by mid-season, adding to the Bulls’ good fortunes; in the end, he is called up to the major leagues. This incites jealous anger in Crash, who is frustrated by Nuke’s failure to value the rare talent he has. Nuke leaves, Annie ends their relationship, and Crash overcomes his jealousy enough to leave Nuke with some final words of advice.

Final Act

The Bulls, now having no use for Nuke’s mentor, call up a younger catcher and release Crash. Crash presents himself at Annie’s house and the two consummate their attraction with a weekend-long lovemaking session. Crash then leaves Annie’s house to seek a further minor-league position.

Nuke is seen one last time, being interviewed by the press as a major leaguer, reciting the clichéd answers that Crash had taught him earlier. Crash joins another team, the Asheville Tourists, and breaks the minor-league record for career home runs. He then retires as a player and returns to Durham, where Annie tells him she’s ready to give up her annual affairs with “boys.” Crash tells her that he is thinking about becoming a manager for a minor-league team in Visalia. The film ends with Annie and Crash dancing in Annie’s candle-lit living room.

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