“That was close; that was a lot about me,” Russell recalled to Cigar Aficionado of Bull Durham slipping through his grasp.

Read more: Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It) Growing up with a baseball-team-owning father gave Kurt Russell a lot of enthusiasm for the ...

Kurt Russell is an Emmy-nominated actor ... in his father’s footsteps and had a brief stint in minor league baseball in the early 1970s before continuing to pursue acting.