The Battered Bastards of Baseball

Hollywood veteran Bing Russell, disillusioned with corporate baseball, buys a low-level franchise and creates the Portland Mavericks—the nation's only independent professional team. He fills the roster with cast-offs, has-beens, and outright misfits ignored by the establishment. This ragtag band of underdogs, playing with pure joy and anti-authoritarian swagger, starts winning games and packing stadiums, electrifying the city of Portland. Their unexpected success sparks a grassroots rebellion that threatens the very monopoly of Major League Baseball.