Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current, July 09, 2014, Page 11, Image 11

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    July 9, 2014
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A photo o f the renegade Portland Mavericks baseball team from about 197z
Portland’s Renegade Mavericks
Film captures early chapter in city’s ‘weird’ history
Hot on the heels of its celebrated
Setting attendance records, the
premiere at this year’s Sundance Film quirky M avericks m anaged to
Festival, the Northwest Film Center whip the professionally stocked
presents a special Friday, July 11 opponent teams, and today, in an
screening of “The Battered Bastards era when professional sports seem
of Baseball,” co-
presented by the
Oregon Historical
Society and featur­
A NHTFUX DOCUMENTARY
ing special guests
in attendance.
A lively chap­
ter in Portland’s
indie, “keep things
weird” history is
the u n h e ra ld ed
story o f the ren­
e g ad e P o rtlan d
M avericks base­
ball team. When
Portland lost its
lo n g tim e AAA
team, the Beavers,
Hollywood actor
Bing Russell (Clem
on “Bonanza” and
fath er o f K urt),
bought the minor-
leag u e a ffilia te
rights and formed
a new single-A
team to operate in­
d e p e n d e n tly o f m ajo r leag u e ever more driven by cynicism and
baseball’s farm system.
com m erce rather than ideals, the
Russell was in it for the love of the affectionate remembrance by film
game, not the business, and when directors Chapman and Maclain
his team of castoffs— mostly as­ Way, is more than ju st colorful
sembled from open tryouts— took local history.
the field in 1973, the spirit of base­
The film’s July 11 screening at
ball was alive in Portland in a special Whitsell Auditorium, located in the
way.
Portland Art Museum, will begin at 8
p.m. Admission is $9 general admis­
sion. For more information, visit
nwfElm.org. The documentary also
premieres the same day across the
county on Netflix.
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