Summer Getaway #4: The Making of ‘Bull Durham’ (with Ron Shelton)
The Next Big Idea
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The Best Baseball Name Ran Ever Heard
Ran soaked it all in. He found a copy of the carolina league record book and started flipping through it. A name stopped him dead in his tracks: Lawrence crash davis. Crash davis felt like someone i knew, someone i could write. Now, all he needed was the woman. The movie story teller his lisistrata. I may not have had a story ronwright, but i had a pitcher and a catcher, and they even had good, solid baseball names. Ebby calvin nuk la louche, even better.
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