[Movie Script]Bull Durham

"BULL DURHAM"

by
Ron Shelton




In baseball, you don't know nothing.
--Yogi Berra




Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better

learn baseball.
--Jacques Barzun




You could look it up.
--Casey Stengel




Titles over --
               FADE IN:



A series of still photos. Black and white. Ancient.
BABE RUTH SWINGS -- An icon of American history. His giant

upper body balanced delicately on tiny ankles and feet. The

huge bat in an elegant follow-through...
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TY COBB ROUNDS THIRD -- The most vicious ballplayer of them

all, a balletic whirling dervish.
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JACKIE ROBINSON STEALS ROME -- Yogi Berra applies the tag.

Too late.
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