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  Baseball Hall of Fame Cancels Film Reunion, Sites Star's Antiwar Activisim
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DescriptionStung by anti-war criticism, Hall cancels `Bull Durham' festivities

By BEN WALKER, AP Baseball Writer
April 10, 2003
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Hall of Fame president, a former official in the Reagan administration, canceled a 15th anniversary celebration of ``Bull Durham'' because of anti-war criticism by co-stars Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon.

Dale Petroskey sent a letter to Robbins and Sarandon this week, telling them the festivities April 26-27 at Cooperstown, N.Y., had been called off.

Recent comments by the actors ``ultimately could put our troops in even more danger,'' said Petroskey, a former White House assistant press secretary under President Reagan.

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