The newcomer is advised: "You don't have a name here until Dragline gives you one." As the acknowledged leader of the gang, Dragline has a preliminary name for Luke and they have their first sparring:Dragline: (About Luke) Maybe we ought to call it No Ears.Plot SynopsisThe picture is prefaced by "A PLEA FOR THE ART OF THE MOTION PICTURE":We do not fear censorship, for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue - the same liberty that is conceded to the art of the written word - that art to which we owe the Bible and the works of Shakespeare.He was constrained long enough for Whitney to stab him in the chest with his own machete, as she told him: "Say hi to Mommy - in hell!"(# 15 death - temporary).Not fame, not money, not death"; it told about a dim-witted, big-hearted catcher named Bruce Pearson (Robert De Niro) who was diagnosed with a terminal illness - Hodgkin's Disease; his best friend and roommate Henry Wiggen (Michael Moriarty) (aka Author), a star pitcher for the fictitious NY Mammoths, helped Bruce to make it through his final season of playThe Natural (1984), director Barry Levinson's uplifting, allegorical and mythical fantasy film about baseball (and redemption and second chances) was based on Bernard Malamud's 1952 story; Robert Redford starred as slugger Roy Hobbs - a "naturally"-gifted baseball-playing prodigy whose life and sports career were sidetracked when he was shot by a mysterious, disturbed woman; 16 years later, he made a miraculous comeback and led his New York Knights team to the World Series;the film concluded with the fulfillment of Roy's heroic quest - and his reunion with a pure "lady in he white dress" who had repeatedly inspired him and watched him from the stands; she was his childhood sweetheart and naive ex-girlfriend Iris Gaines (Glenn Close), with whom he had unknowingly produced an out-of-wedlock childBull Durham (1988), first-time director Ron Shelton's humorous and intelligent romantic sports comedy-drama was about a mediocre Carolina minor leagues baseball team - the Durham Bulls; it was the quintessential modern sports film about America's greatest game, starring hree very complex characters involved in a love triangle and mentoring relationship - the film's plot integrally wove together minor-league baseball and sex during one long and hot summer season of ball-playing in 1987Eight Men Out (1988), co-writer/director John Sayles historical drama, based on Eliot Asinof's 1963 best seller, was about the infamous 1919 "Black Sox" scandalous incident during the World Series, when players on the Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the pennant to their underdog opponent; some of the unhappy team players, angry at stingy team owner Charles A.