For a baseball person, few characters elicit as much pathos as Crash Davis. In the 1988 film Bull Durham, Crash Davis was the patron saint of the baseball lost cause. Though he once had a cup of coffee in The Show, he is the epitome of a career minor leaguer. Crash is a font of all baseball knowledge—a journeyman extending his career one more year under no auspices that he is even remotely on the radar of the big club. In fact, he was only brought in to play Mr. Miyagi to the “Million Dollar arm; 5 cent brain” of hotshot young pitcher Nuke LaLoosh.
Mike Yastrzemski Called Up to the Show
