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One of baseball's last great, unheralded true stories "The Battered Bastards of Baseball" .
Neil Oliver "Bing" Russell (known for playing Deputy Clem on "Bonanza" his son is Actor Kurt Russell and grandfather of ex-major league baseball player Matt Franco.) created in 1973, the only independent baseball team in America at the time - Portland Mavericks.
Operating without a Major League affiliation, Bing had tryouts for the Mavericks, which were open to the public, were filled with hopefuls who arrived in droves from every state in America, many of whom had been rejected by organized baseball.
Bing's Mavericks generated unprecedented success: they shattered attendance records, Bing even signed his son Kurt Russell as a player and team Vice President. Bing even produced the most successful batboy in baseball (filmmaker Todd Field), he re-launched the controversial career of Jim Bouton, hired the first female general manager in Baseball, and inspired one of America's beloved bubblegums - Big League Chew.
The Battered Bastards of Baseball is about he Mavericks' in your face attitude which was contagious to fans, and during their short reign, they - and Bing Russell - basically held up their middle finger to the sports establishment and said we're playing this game on our terms, not yours.
A true story based on Harry Hallowes (Brendan Gleeson) who first squatted on the site in 1987 after being evicted from his council flat in Highgate. Hallowes, who died aged 88 in 2016, battled for the legal rights to own the land on which he had built his shelter arguing that he had gained ownership by "adverse possession". Hallowes was eventually awarded 7,000 square feet (650 m2) in title deeds.
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Schoolboy William Kamkwamba (Maxwell Simba)hails from a family of farmers live in the nearby village of Wimbe. William loves fixing radios for his friends and neighbours and spends his time looking through the local junkyard for salvageable electronic components.
Due to his parents' inability to pay his tuition fees, William is barred from attending school. William blackmails his science teacher into letting him continue attending his class and have access to the school's library where he learns about electrical engineering and energy production.
During the mid-2000s, saw failing crops due to a drought and with the resulting famine has devastated William’s village, leading to riots over government rationing and William's family being robbed of their already meagre grain stores.
People soon begin abandoning the village, and William's sister elopes with his former teacher in order to leave her family "one less mouth to feed".
William devises a plan to build a windmill to power an electric water pump as he seeks to save his village from the drought. William builds a small prototype which works, but to build a larger windmill, William requires his father, Trywell (Chiwetel Ejiofor), to give permission to deconstruct the family bicycle for parts, which is the only bicycle in the village and the family's last major asset.
William's father believes the exercise futile and destroys the prototype. However, after intervention from William's mother, William and his father reconcile, and with the help of his friends and the remaining members of the village, they build a full-size windmill which leads to a successful crop being sown.