title: Mike Bell (first baseman)
text: # Mike Bell (first baseman)
  
  Michael Allen Bell (born April 22, 1968) is an American former Major League Baseball player for the Atlanta Braves and a number of minor league teams. He attended Georgia Tech in the off-season.
  
  Bell, who was playing for the Durham Bulls when the film Bull Durham was released, wrote the name of the main character, Crash, on his bat during the 1988 season.
  
  