The church of baseball : the making of Bull Durham : home runs, bad calls, crazy fights, big swings, and a hit / Ron Shelton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shelton, Ron, 1945- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shelton, Ron, 1945-.

Shelton, Ron.

Bull Durham (Motion picture).

Motion pictures--Production and direction--United States--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Baseball films--United States--History and criticism.

Baseball films.

Baseball in motion pictures.

Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Screenwriters--United States--Biography.

Screenwriters.

Motion pictures--Production and direction.

United States.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 241 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.

Summary:

"Bull Durham, the breakthrough 1988 film about a minor league baseball team, is widely revered as the best sports movie of all time. But back in 1987, Ron Shelton was a first-time director and no one was willing to finance a movie about baseball-especially a story set in the minors. The jury was still out on Kevin Costner's leading man potential, while Susan Sarandon was already a has-been. There were doubts. But something miraculous happened, and The Church of Baseball attempts to capture why. From organizing a baseball camp for the actors and rewriting key scenes while on set, to dealing with a short production schedule and overcoming the challenge of filming the sport, Shelton brings to life the making of this beloved American movie. As he tells the story of Bull Durham, Shelton also explains the rarely revealed ins-and-outs of moviemaking, from a film's inception and financing, screenwriting, casting, the nuts-and-bolts of directing, the post-production process, and even through its release. But this is also a book about baseball and its singular romance in the world of sports. Shelton himself spent six years in the minor leagues before making this film, and his experiences resonate throughout this book. Full of wry humor and insight, The Church of Baseball tells the remarkable story behind an iconic film"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One Development

1. Forbidden Fruit

2. Dalko, Altobelli, and Number 136

3. Lysistrata in the Minor Leagues

4. Edith Piaf and the Texas Playboys (Act One)

5. It Don't Get No Better Than This (Act Two, Part One)

6. Aristophanes and the Bermuda Triangle (Act Two, Part Two)

7. Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Lose, Sometimes It Rains

8. "Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?"

-Casey Stengel

pt. Two Preproduction

9. Building the Toy Train Set

10. "I Thought My Body of Work Would Be Enough"

11. Practice

pt. Three Production

12. There's a Hat on the Bus

13. A Thousand Pigeons

14. Sixty-Minute Man

pt. Four Postproduction

15. The Third Time You Make the Movie

16. Kill Your Darlings

17. Those Baptist Whorehouse Chords

18. The Numbers Never Lie

19. Why Baseball?.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf."

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780593319772

059331977X

9780593313961

0593313968

OCLC:

1287753606