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Mandarin chinese, english, hindi, spanish, arabic, malay, russian, bengali and others. A documentary, directed by chapman way and maclain way, about the independently owned portland mavericks baseball team of the nineteenseventies. There is now talk of making a feature film about the portland mavericks. The battered bastards of baseball trailer from netflix collider. The battered bastards of baseball tribeca film institute. The battered bastards of baseball a quixotic hollywood actor and father of kurt russell brazenly takes on major league baseball in. Actor bing russell kurts father created a ragtag independent baseball team called the portland mavericks in the 1970s. Park city the battered bastards of baseball is not just about baseball. 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.
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