Battered **** of Baseball
scottyboy76
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No, its not about the cubbies.
Its a netflix doc about the portland mavericks in the 70s.
Kurt Russels father bought an independent team because he loved baseball, and even played some minor league ball.
If you are around my age, you will immediately recognize this actors face from 13 years as deputy sheriff on "Gunsmoke" and many other roles, never the star but always around, his name was Bing Russell.
The story is about this underfunded independent team in the midst of all the major league team owned operations.
They held open tryouts and were ridiculed, but the eventually became the bad news bears of semipro ball, complete with the ragtag bunch of beerswilling roustabouts as well as a few guys who could play,later to include Jim Bouton , the guy who wrote the expose book "Ball Four" when he was making his successful comeback to get back to the majors after winning 4 rings with the yanks playing with dimaggio, mantle berra and others.
I will let the ending unfold for you, but if you dont watch it all the way through, at least check out the part at the end where they tell what became of several of the guys.
i will tell you one, he was sitting in the dugout watching guys put chewing tobacco and bubblegum in their mouth a t the same time and got some red bull packs, decorated them up, shredded some flat bubble gum, and came up with Big league chew bubble gum, not bad.
BTW, their very first game after being ridiculed as a joke indy team holding open tryouts and all ended with their pitcher throwing a no hitter.
Its a netflix doc about the portland mavericks in the 70s.
Kurt Russels father bought an independent team because he loved baseball, and even played some minor league ball.
If you are around my age, you will immediately recognize this actors face from 13 years as deputy sheriff on "Gunsmoke" and many other roles, never the star but always around, his name was Bing Russell.
The story is about this underfunded independent team in the midst of all the major league team owned operations.
They held open tryouts and were ridiculed, but the eventually became the bad news bears of semipro ball, complete with the ragtag bunch of beerswilling roustabouts as well as a few guys who could play,later to include Jim Bouton , the guy who wrote the expose book "Ball Four" when he was making his successful comeback to get back to the majors after winning 4 rings with the yanks playing with dimaggio, mantle berra and others.
I will let the ending unfold for you, but if you dont watch it all the way through, at least check out the part at the end where they tell what became of several of the guys.
i will tell you one, he was sitting in the dugout watching guys put chewing tobacco and bubblegum in their mouth a t the same time and got some red bull packs, decorated them up, shredded some flat bubble gum, and came up with Big league chew bubble gum, not bad.
BTW, their very first game after being ridiculed as a joke indy team holding open tryouts and all ended with their pitcher throwing a no hitter.
humpty dumpty was pushed
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Watched it a few days ago. Great story.
