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The Battered Bastards of Baseball

Documentary1h 20m2014-01-20

They put balls back in the game.

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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.

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Chapman WayDirector

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Kurt Russell

Kurt RussellHimself

Todd Field

Todd FieldHimself

Jim Bouton

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Lou RussellHerself

Ken WheelerHimself

Jack FaustHimself

Carren WoodsHerself

Nick BertramHimself

Robert RichardsonHimself

Frank PetersHimself

Rob NelsonHimself

Jim SwansonHimself

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