"It's that tension you talk about which makes you alive. I have to produce every day or i will be gone," he says. "I wouldn't have traded the experience for anything in the world." He played five seasons in the miners, 469 games, one thousand, 691 at bats, 425 hits, hundred and 92 strike outs. 29 times he was hit by a pitch, and four times he was intentionally walked.
Ron Shelton is an Academy Award–nominated writer and director, former shortstop for the Bluefield Baby Birds, and author of a humdinger of a new memoir called "The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham — Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit." On the show today: How Ron sold the movie before he had a story, wrote the script without a plan, played ball with Kevin Costner, and got directorial pointers from Susan Sarandon.
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