The Cauldron · Dec 1, 2016
For The Love In The Game
From “Love & Basketball” to “Bull Durham”, Romance readers love fictional sports — even if they hate the real thing.
“There’s a certain amount of life wisdom I give these boys. I can expand their minds. Sometimes when I’ve got a ballplayer alone, I’ll just read Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman to him. And the guys are so sweet, they always stay and listen. Of course, a guy’ll listen to anything if he thinks it’s foreplay.” — Annie Savoy, “Bull Durham”
I had an interesting conversation with a producer recently about sports and romance. There’s a link, I told her. Something about the sports world that connects with readers of romance, even if they don’t follow or even like sports.