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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.

By Jordan Mintzer Baseball movies are more than a mere subgenre of sports movies; they’re a whole genre unto themselves. With nearly 200 feature-length titles, both fiction and documentary ...

The Pickles follow in the footsteps of the Portland Mavericks, an independent team in the 1970s who were themselves the subject of a documentary, “The Battered Bastards of Baseball.” They, in short, ...

Except to chase a foul ball or two, the movie stays within the lines of Soldier Field, the nondescript Massachusetts baseball field they’re playing on sometime in the 1990s. It spans nine ...

The story of the Mavericks takes center stage in the 2014 documentary, The Battered Bastards of Baseball. The Portland Mavericks had a great run, albeit a short one; the team left town in 1977 ...