EW Calls Durham Bulls' 25th Anniversary Celebration of Bull Durham "Awesome(ly bad)"

If you’re a diehard Bull Durham fan with some vacation time, you may want to head to North Carolina on Sunday, June 16, when the players will also wear those throwback jerseys for a “game-long tribute to the film coinciding with the exact weekend it was released a quarter century ago.”

"Durham Bulls celebrate 25th anniversary of 'Bull Durham' in awesome(ly bad) ways," EW Popwatch

Salon.com - Bull Durham

"If two of America's biggest pastimes (and industries) are baseball and the movies, why are there so few truly great baseball films? That's the question we posed to several experts -- novelists, sports journalists, even a former baseball commissioner... "Bull Durham" turns out to be, as one writer put it, "the gold standard"..."

- What's the best baseball movie?, Salon.com

TIME - Bull Durham

"Walt Whitman called baseball "our game, the American game. It will repair our losses and be a blessing to us." Anyway, that's the close paraphrase of Whitman's panegyric by Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon), a keen student of the game and its minor-league players in Durham, N.C., and one of the most liberated, lubricious females in the history of movies — certainly of sports movies, where the usual function of females is to stand at ringside or courtside and cheer their men on."

- The All-TIME 25 Best Sports Movies, TIME

The New York Times - Durham a Summer Dance Destination

"Durham has become a major summer dance destination, with hundreds of students from the United States and elsewhere descending on the Duke University campus each year to take a wide range of classes and workshops and to watch the dozens of performances that the festival crams into its six-week run."

- An Eccentric Sendoff for a Festival’s Leader, The New York Times

Mythical Monkey - Bull Durham

"From my notes on Bull Durham, the 1988 comedy written and directed by Ron Shelton about a romantic triangle set in baseball's Carolina League: 'what makes it art is not the romance or the baseball but its pitch-perfect insights into the existence of a marginally-talented man.'"

- That's Typing Tuesday #5: Bull Durham, Mythical Monkey