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Jul 10, 2014 · The Portland Mavericks, an independent minor league baseball team that played for five seasons in the 1970s, didn’t run with the pack. Owner Bing Russell, a Hollywood B-actor and lifelong ...
Jul 17, 2014 · Whether you're a baseball fan or not, ... and the best sports documentary in a while. ... Founded by ex-ball player/character actor Bing Russell, who during his Hollywood career was killed ...
Jul 18, 2014 · David Greene talks to actor Kurt Russell about the Portland Mavericks, a 1970s independent baseball team created by Kurt's father Bing. Battered Bastards is a documentary about the team.
Jan 29, 2014 · Directed by Chapman Way and Maclain Way, the film chronicles Bonanza actor Bing Russell’s formation of the independent baseball team the Portland Mavericks and the ensuing confrontation with ...
Bing’s son Kurt, 72 — yes, that Kurt Russell! — played for the team in its inaugural season, and the documentary was directed by two of Bing’s grandsons, Chapman and Maclain Way, who also helmed the Emmy-winning Netflix documentary Wild Wild Country.
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Watch The Battered Bastards of Baseball with a subscription on Netflix. In 1973, baseball lover and actor Bing Russell, father of Kurt Russell, starts an independent, single-A team composed of ...
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Matt Franco (grandson) Wyatt Russell (grandson) Neil Oliver " Bing " Russell (May 5, 1926 – April 8, 2003) [1] was an American actor and Class A minor-league baseball club owner. He was the father of Hollywood actor Kurt Russell and grandfather of ex–major league baseball player Matt Franco and actor Wyatt Russell. [citation needed]
