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From the Big Top to the big leagues: Burt Lancaster's Baseball Odysseys (Oddities?).
"If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies ... They can ruin you." --Holden Caulfield (Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger) Time is of the essence. This is a highly skilled And beautiful mystery ... --Rolfe Humphries, "Polo Grounds"
NORTH CAROLINA WAS KEY. HOLLYWOOD SAGES WERE CONVINCED that, on the heels of the wildly successful Bull Durham (1988), which featured the Tar Heel State's best-known sports franchise, Kevin Costner would reject the invitation to head the cast in a second film about baseball. Back-to-back stories about the national pastime would typecast him, the best thinking argued. Field of Dreams (1989) would never have him as its star.
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