Picture yourself one step away from your dream, whatever your dream may be. You’ve got the talent, the desire, and the mindset to take you to the top. Yet, you’re missing two key components: control and experience. This is the situation Ebby Calvin “Nuke” Laloosh (played by Tim Robbins) is in. He’s a star pitcher that’s rapidly making his way through the minor leagues and finds himself pitching for the Durham Bulls, one team away from pitching for the New York Yankees. He’s a young pitcher with a thunderbolt for an arm, but when the ball leaves his hand, he’s got no idea where it’s going to go! In his first game he hit the public address announcer, the sportswriter, the bull mascot twice, but struck out eighteen batters! The manager decides …show more content…
Crash realizes that his pitchers shower shoes look funny, at a closer glance he sees the problem, “Your shower shoes have fungus on them, you’ll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shoes. If you think classy, you’ll be classy. If you win twenty in the show, you can let the fungus grow back and the press’ll think you're colorful. Until you win twenty in the show, however, it means you’re a slob.” As the season progresses, you see Ebby Calvin become more organized and clean, which makes him more reliable as a player and in the future, a team …show more content…
When you get in a fight with a drunk you don’t hit him with your pitching hand. God. I can’t keep giving you these free lessons.”
Although most of the season they disagreed with each other, by the time Ebby was called up to the Yankees, they developed a lasting relationship, had a successful baseball season and both obtained their goals. Baseball is a simple game, you hit, run, catch, and throw. Yet, baseball is also a lifestyle to some and the movie Bull Durham portrays this through the young, inexperienced life of Ebby Calvin and the old, wise life of Crash Davis. This is a grand slam of a movie that’ll keep you laughing throughout. Any reader should step up to the plate and watch this