The Battered Bastards of Baseball

Name: The Battered Bastards of Baseball
Director: Maclain Way
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2014-01-20
Duration: 1 h 20 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Kurt Russell, Todd Field, Jim Bouton, Lou Russell, Ken Wheeler

“They put balls back in the game.”

2014

1h 20m

Documentary

Director: Maclain Way

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Overview

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.