The Battered Bastards of Baseball
They put balls back in the game.
An uplifting documentary about underdogs defying institutional power through scrappy determination and family bonds, rooted in 1970s Americana.
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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