Mike Yastrzemski Called Up to the Show

Yaz! Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images 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. Following LaLoosh’s promotion to the Majors, Crash is promptly cut from the Durham Bulls, and faces the ignominy of setting the minor league record for most career home runs under no fanfare as a member of The Asheville Tourists.

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