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/ha)pm*/ an(; and Macl+%ain/ W\ay’s ener): getic .!_telling of one of base\,ball’s great(, unh?er$ald)$ ed st-ories +;is :as much about independent spi rit as it# is about the game. When Portland, Ore\
#=go/-n, lost its longtime min)or-league aff:?$iliate, );Bi/ng% R.!u..ssell—w*%ho briefly played bal /
-l profe=:ssion?all \y bef^ore e-+nj#oyin(g a su=],ccessful Holl?$ywoo*d a@ cting career—bough
t the territory and f/[.@ormed a sing-*]le-A[- team to oper) `ate outside ;)_th=e confine#s of major-lea  gue baseb(\?$:al/+l. [;When they?! took t^:=[he field in 1973, the Maver@?@icks—the only )(/independ(!ent team in America—started with two st _\rik) . es against\, t=(hem. Wha:t (did D@/eputy Clem from =!@.Bonanza know about baseba=ll? =*Or Portland, for th at _matter? Th`$#e;( onl](y th_-ing unit!*
in=?:g his / players, recruited at ope;-n tryou^@.ts, was that n
?o oth?@er team. w ante[#d th em. Skeptics agr `(ee;]
*d that%: it co^#uld never 
? !:@work[=.　@　B?+ut Bi*ng understood a ba,*/llpla@yer’s ]dreams,(` and he understoo=*\*d a) -n\. :\ audienc:((e. His / qui/\[r#[)!k.
y, unkempt =c(;#astoffs won ? +games, and the\$;y won f ans, ^sh\attering minor[`-league at[t+^ e%ndance records. Thei,]+r spirit$ was =$cont)/# a%=giou[+s, a$
nd durin ;%g[ the%ir sho;-rt reig/;n-, the[! 
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ericks—a resta# `ur[an*t owner turned manag^;/er, le!;ft-ha $`nded cat[:$ ch er, an: =d blackballed pitcher ;among the? m—brought indep,-enden_ce back to+ ?b@ /aseba_ll* and embodied@( what it]( wa%^s^ all about: the lo -ve of the %gam^e.　 _　- J.N.