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Hollywood actor Bing Russell embraced Portland’s wild, weird 1970s and enticed Elvis with Mavericks, Big League dreams
Updated Feb 01, 2021;
Posted Jan 25, 2021
Bing Russell, right, created an unusual kind of baseball team in Portland. Former New York Yankees star Jim Bouton, left, couldn t resist the call of the wild. (Netflix)
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The 1970s weren’t being kind to Portland.
Gas shortages caused cars to queue for blocks outside filling stations. The New York Times ridiculed the city for the “bomb-site look” of its downtown. The population had begun to shrink.
But a Hollywood actor looked around the struggling blue-collar town in 1973 and couldn’t stop smiling. He called Portland his “favorite city in the world.”
next, larry colton account his political and social documentary of change in alabama. this is a little over an hour. [applause] hello, everybody. i m so delighted with the opportunity to introduce larry to you this evening. he is the founder of the community of writers and part of the literary festival that is held today. he is a recipient recently of the stewart holbrook literacy legacy award. his devotion organizing their thoughts about the world, aspiring writers, just mention a couple, there were two that were recently honored at the book awards. we have long predicted how this has been. we have a baseball card as an example. we have made an incredibly effective use. inspiration is rich in its own way. it was about the portland trail blazers and it look like for a while it would be a runoff of the publication in 1978. it was a main selection of the book of the month club. it established leary s reputation above all of an accomplished storyteller. it was a way to begi