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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.
- English
- Juliana Lembi
- Brocker Way
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.
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- Documentary, Sport
- Chapman Way, Maclain Way
- 2014-07-11
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.
- Chapman Way, Maclain Way
- 80 min
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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...
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- Todd Field, Kurt Russell, Frank Peters
- Chapman Way, Maclain Way
- Documentary
Apr 13, 2020 · “Battered Bastards” tells the story of how the Mavericks came to grief for showing up Major League Baseball in a public den that it was permitted to claim as its own. Photograph Courtesy Netflix...
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.
