“Full many a flow’r is born to blush unseen, Susan Surandon’s character, Annie Savoy, reads these two lines of a Thomas Gray poem after Crash Davis, who is played by Kevin Costner, hits his record-setting minor league home run towards the end of Bull Durham. In the movie, nobody realizes Davis broke an impressive minor-league record. The same cannot be said for the new record set by Toledo Mud Hens corner infielder Mike Hessman. The 37-year-old Santa Ana native became the real life Crash Davis this week, breaking baseball’s minor league home run record with his 433rd dinger.
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”
Detroit Tigers: Mike Hessman is the Real Life Bull Durham
