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The Battered Bastards of Baseball (2014)

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Movie Info

In 1973, baseball lover and actor Bing Russell, father of Kurt Russell, starts an independent, single-A team composed of players that no one else wanted.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Chapman Way, Maclain Way
Producer:

Juliana Lembi
Writer:

Chapman Way, Maclain Way
Release Date (Streaming):

Dec 5, 2016
Runtime:

1h 13m

Cast & Crew

Todd Field

Kurt Russell

Frank Peters

Chapman Way
Director

Maclain Way
Director

Chapman Way
Writer

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Critic Reviews for The Battered Bastards of Baseball

All Critics (15) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (15)

[Its] reminiscences... resound with the hearty wonder of a modern-day folktale.

April 13, 2020 | Full Review…

Richard Brody
New Yorker
This film is a labor of love in which the sweat never shows.

July 14, 2014 | Rating: A- | Full Review…

Michael Sragow
Orange County Register
The movie can be enjoyed by anyone, not just sports fans. Underdog stories simply don't get better than this.

July 10, 2014 | Full Review…

Glenn Whipp
Los Angeles Times
Bing Russell built it, and they came.

July 10, 2014 | Full Review…

Daniel M. Gold
New York Times
Vibrant, rebellious, and fun as all hell - if also utterly biased.

July 8, 2014 | Full Review…

Michael Nordine
Village Voice
"Bastards" works because it has two storytellers with a personal desire to tell a story that nobody else seems to have wanted to tell. So what if it's a glorified home movie?

June 26, 2014 | Rating: B+

Dan Fienberg
HitFix
A genuine feel-good story and terrific way to spend an hour or so. If you're a sports movie fan at all, you'll love it.

June 7, 2021 | Full Review…

Graeme Tuckett
Stuff.co.nz
This gem of a film captures an era when independent baseball managed to crush the big money corporate system and in that moment, capture the purity of the game.

April 2, 2020 | Full Review…

Loren King
Newport This Week (RI)
The footage builds in such a way that it's impossible to not get caught up in the enthusiasm of a bunch of unruly players and their larger-than-life Hollywood owner defying the conventions of the uptight Minor League establishment.

December 11, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Di Golding
Dear Cast and Crew
A hugely entertaining, almost completely untold story, like "Slap Shot," albeit with much less drugs, fighting and general debauchery

July 31, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Stephen Silver
EntertainmentTell
Is to baseball what "Slap Shot" was to hockey.

July 10, 2014 | Rating: A+ | Full Review…

Edward Havens
FilmJerk.com
Inevitably, some of the key moments in the team's history were never filmed, but "Battered Bastards" still does a good job of capturing the feel of a feverish Civic Stadium in the 1970s.

July 9, 2014 | Rating: A- | Full Review…

Marc Mohan
Oregonian