1988 movie starring
Kevin Costner as
Crash Davis, an aging
catcher playing for the
Carolina League's
Durham Bulls, signed to teach
Nuke LaLoosh (
Tim Robbins) the ways of the
baseball world.
Susan Sarandon played
Annie Savoy, a somewhat unusual
Baseball Annie (in that she remains
monogamous within the bounds of a single
season) who sleeps with LaLoosh while slowly falling in love with Davis.
This movie kindled a boom in minor league baseball that has lasted to this day. Unfortunately for tourists (but fortunately for Durham baseball fans who were spending their summers in a decrepit facility), the stadium where this movie was filmed, Durham Athletic Park, was knocked down in the mid-1990's and replaced by brand-new Durham Bulls Athletic Park. The Bulls themselves moved up to the AAA International League in 1998.