the central focus of each endeavor: the pitcher's mound (or the entire baseball diamond) and the preacher's pulpit or altareach practice's 'saints' or mythic heroes, such as Saint Paul or Jackie Robinson/Babe Ruth/Willie MaysShelton's other writing (and directing) credits have also included:The Best of Times (1986)(football)White Men Can't Jump (1992)(basketball, also directed)Blue Chips (1994)(basketball)Cobb (1994)(baseball, also directed)The Great White Hype (1996)(boxing)Tin Cup (1996)(golf, also directed)Play It To the Bone (2000)(boxing, also directed)Bull Durhamwould only receive a single Academy Award Oscar nomination for Shelton's original screenplay."Vince: (unperturbed) "You scare me.Women beaters always scare me."Tough Man: "Why don't you run along, sonny, before I muss up your hair?"Vince had a drink poured on him, causing him to defend himself and retaliate with a right hook to the man's jaw.Marketing slogans cried: "The Happiest Sound in All the World." Ernest Lehman's screenplay was based on the book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.That book was in turn based on Baroness Maria von Trapp's 1949 autobiography (The von Trapp Family Singers) about he exploits of the family of singers and their escape from the Nazis in Austria in 1938.As he chased after the Rabbit's Foot rolling down the street, in a sealed canister, he had to evade a jack-knifing tanker and other cars.