It is 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 1987:"Crash" Davis (Kevin Costner), a veteran, romantic-minded, aging catcher for the Durham (NC) Bulls (a Single-A minor league affiliate), still remembering his 21-day stint in ""The Show"" (slang for the Major Leagues) during his 10-year careerEbby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh (Tim Robbins), a wild, young, hot-shot, dim-witted rookie pitcher for the Bulls who was being tutored by "Crash" to become more disciplined and mature by channeling his talentAnnie Savoy (Susan Sarandon, Robbins"" future ""real-life wife""), a part-time Alamance Junior College English 101 and Beginning Composition eacher and sexually-seductive baseball groupie and dedicated super-fan[Note: Baseball groupies used to be known, politely and affectionately, as "Baseball Annies" (or Shirleys) - clarifying the reason why the name was chosen for the overzealous, flirtatious, sexually-desirous female fan.With their hijacked alien drone ship, Spock and Bones flew in to save Kirk from also being taken into space through the shaft." In the meeting, Preston expresses his belief that the expansion of Northern railroad lines and rail freight shipments are bypassing the South:.Take a good look at her.You might be interviewing her again some day." Joe immediately discovers that he has a major scoop in the works, and decides to be in good graces with his boss.A lechorous, male beach attendant [a police informant?] stands menacingly above Robie with a message about a phone call from Bertani, with additional information about the man who asked questions in his restaurant about jewels: "He will wait for you at the entrance of the flower market in Nice.