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Owned by actor Bing Russell, the Mavericks were an independent team, without the affiliation of a parent team in the major leagues. The title is from a line in Jim Bouton's 1970 book Ball Four: "Us battered bastards of baseball are the biggest customers of the U.S. Post Office, forwarding-address department." [1]
Neil Oliver "Bing" Russell (May 5, 1926 – April 8, 2003) [1] was an American actor and Class A minor-league baseball club owner. He was the father of Hollywood actor Kurt Russell and grandfather of ex–major league baseball player Matt Franco and actor Wyatt Russell .
Chapman was born in Ventura County, California. [6] He is a grandson of actor Bing Russell and nephew of actor Kurt Russell. [7]In 2014, Chapman directed his debut feature documentary, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, along with Maclain Way, about the Portland Mavericks, premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and acquired by Netflix as one of their Original documentaries. [8]
Wyatt and Kurt Russell. Despite their striking resemblance, Wyatt Russell never thought he'd one day play a younger version of his famous dad, Kurt Russell. But, Apple TV+'s Monarch: ...
Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. At the age of 12, he began acting in the Western TV series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). In the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company, where he starred as Dexter Riley in films such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), and The Strongest ...
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Kurt and Wyatt Russell may be father and son IRL, but they portray the same person in Apple TV+’s new Godzilla series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Playing the character of Lee Shaw at different ...
Kurt Russell Baseball Card Todd Field Baseball Card Bing Russell's son, actor Kurt Russell , played for the club for a month in its inaugural season in 1973. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The first-year Mavericks' Hollywood connection was not limited to the Russells; manager Hank Robinson (1923–2012) was a character actor, [ 13 ] [ 14 ] and players Robbie ...