THE BATTERED BASTARDS OF BASEBALL Trailer

Netflix has released a new trailer for its upcoming sports doc The Battered Bastards of Baseball, which chronicles the story of the Mavericks, a minor-league baseball team started up by Bing Russell, father of Kurt Russell.  The film originally premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and recently screening at the LA Film Festival.

Netflix will be releasing the film July 11th, click here to check out our full review and look below for the trailer.

When Portland, Oregon, lost its longtime minor-league affiliate, Bing Russell—who briefly played ball professionally before enjoying a successful Hollywood acting career—bought the territory and formed a single-A team to operate outside the confines of major-league baseball. When they took the field in 1973, the Mavericks—the only independent team in America—started with two strikes against them. What did Deputy Clem from Bonanza know about baseball? Or Portland, for that matter? The only thing uniting his players, recruited at open tryouts, was that no other team wanted them. Skeptics agreed that it could never work. But Bing understood a ballplayer’s dreams, and he understood an audience. His quirky, unkempt castoffs won games, and they won fans, shattering minor-league attendance records. Their spirit was contagious, and during their short reign, the Mavericks—a restaurant owner turned manager, left-handed catcher, and blackballed pitcher among them—brought independence back to baseball and embodied what it was all about: the love of the game.