Jonah Keri names foods that start with the letter “Q” with filmmaker Ron Shelton: his career as a minor-league baseball player; scheming to join the Expos; the Oriole way and Earl Weaver; digging ditches; writing and directing Bull Durham; loving something that doesn’t love you back; White Men Can’t Jump; Rosie Perez and strong female characters; casting via pick-up basketball games; Kevin Costner’s athleticism; life imitating art with Tin Cup; why he can’t get sports movies made anymore; Paul Newman; Bill Lee, Josh Duhamel, and the movie Spaceman; Ron’s future movie on Joe Namath; his forthcoming movie Villa Capri with Morgan Freeman and Tommy Lee Jones; and Ron’s Life Tip.

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