The Battered Bastards of Baseball (2014)
• January 20th, 2014 • 1h 20min
Documentary
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.
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