2014 Directed By Chapman Way & Maclain Way Starring Todd Field, Kurt Russell, Rob Nelson For thirteen seasons Bing Russell played Deputy Clem on Bonanza. He also had roles on Gunsmoke, Mod Squad, The Streets of San Francisco and most noteworthy The Magnificent Seven. Outside of acting he had a deep love of Baseball. Bing was a student of the sport. He was so deeply knowledgeable on the subject of Baseball that he made instructional videos on how to coach it. The videos were apparently so well made that several MLB teams used them. In 1972 Bonanza was cancelled and Bing was unemployed. He had begun to lose interest in acting and was in something of a slump. Around the same time Portlands minor league baseball team had been sold and moved out of state. After 70 years the city of Portland was without a baseball team and after 20 years of non-stop acting Bing Russell was without a job. The Battered Bastards of Baseball tells the story of how an actor started the onl