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Dominican Rep. The Battered Bastards of Baseball
- Original title
- The Battered Bastards of Baseball
- Year
- 2014
- Running time
- 79 min.
- Country
United States- Director
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Documentary
- Music
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- Genre
- Documentary | Sport Documentaries. Baseball
- Synopsis
- The Battered Bastards of Baseball is one of baseball's last great, unheralded true stories. In 1973, Hollywood veteran Bing Russell (best known for playing Deputy Clem on "Bonanza") created the only independent baseball team in America at the time, the legendary Portland Mavericks. Bing operated without a Major League affiliation while playing in a city that was considered a wasteland for professional baseball. Tryouts for the Mavericks, which were open to the public, were filled with hopefuls who arrived in droves from every state in America, many of whom had been rejected by organized baseball. Skeptics agreed it would never work. But Bing's Mavericks generated unprecedented success: they shattered attendance records, signed Kurt Russell - Bing's son - as a player and team Vice President, produced the most successful batboy in baseball (filmmaker Todd Field), re-launched the controversial career of Jim Bouton and hired the first female general manager in Baseball.
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