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Jul 11, 2014 · With Lou Russell, Kurt Russell, Ken Wheeler, Todd Field. In 1973, Hollywood actor Bing Russell starts an independent minor league baseball team in Portland consisting of outcasts and misfits, and turns them into unlikely overnight success.
The Battered Bastards of Baseball is a 2014 documentary film about the Portland Mavericks, a defunct minor league baseball team in Portland, Oregon. They played five seasons in the Class A-Short Season Northwest League, from 1973 through 1977.
The colorful true story of the Portland Mavericks, a scrappy, independent baseball team of underdogs started by actor Bing Russell in the 1970s. Watch trailers & learn more.
The Battered Bastards of Baseball. Stream The Battered Bastards of Baseball on Netflix. In 1973, baseball lover and actor Bing Russell, father of Kurt Russell, starts an...
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Official Trailer for The Battered Bastards of Baseball, a Netflix original documentary. This is the colorful true story of the Portland Mavericks, a scrappy,...
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.
Hollywood veteran Bing Russell creates the only independent baseball team in the country—alarming the baseball establishment and sparking the meteoric rise of the 1970s Portland Mavericks.
