The Big Picture Everyone knows and loves Kurt Russell. The Escape From New York star's acting career has spanned seven decades and more than 100 roles, including fan favorites in John Carpenter's The Thing, Tombstone, Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, and most recently, Apple TV+'s Godzilla series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.
Bing Russell's love affair with baseball started as a child in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he served as a bat boy during spring training for the legendary New York Yankees teams of the 1930s and '40s. He became an unofficial mascot of sorts for the club, befriending such greats as Lefty Gomez and Joe DiMaggio, and even received a homerun bat from the legendary Lou Gehrig.
Kurt Russell's Father Brings Baseball Back to Portland in the Netflix Documentary Following the 1972 season, the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League left town to become the Spokane Indians, opening up the territory for a new team. Bing Russell seized the opportunity and paid $500 to purchase the rights to the Portland Mavericks, a new independent Class-A franchise in the short-season Northwest League.
Unfortunately, Kurt's shoulder never fully recovered, and he hit a paltry .229 in his short stint with the Mavericks. Even though he knew his baseball career was finished, he loved every second of his time in Portland, and he provides the documentary with his first-hand recollections of the upstart team's antics, as well as his father's baseball obsession.
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