Bing Russell
Although best known as the deputy on Bonanza (1959) and Robert in The Magnificent Seven (1960), Russell's was also well known on a national level as the owner of the Portland Mavericks Baseball Club. Helming the only independent team in the class A Northwest League, Russell was an innovator. Before Bull Durham (1988), there were the Mavericks. Russell kept a 30 man roster because he believed that some of the players deserved to have one last season. His motto was simply one three lettered word - not WIN - although the Mavericks did just that - no, the word was FUN. He created a park that kept all corporate sponsorship outside the gates, hired the first female general manager in professional baseball, and the following year hired the first Asian American GM/Manager. That same season his team set a record for the highest attendance in Minor league history, and went on to win the pennant. Ex-major leaguers and never-weres who couldn't stop playing the game flocked to his June tryouts, which were always open to anyone that showed up. From as far away as Capetown, and France, players would head to Portland for a chance with Russell's Mavericks.
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TV Series
The Andy Griffith Show
7.6
Maverick
6.8
I Dream of Jeannie
7.831
The Munsters
7.9
Route 66
6.3
The Twilight Zone
8.447
The Twilight Zone
8.447
The Streets of San Francisco
6.935
Alias Smith and Jones
6.9
Mannix
6.7
Surfside 6
5
The Mod Squad
6.3
Gunsmoke
6.6
The Fugitive
7.2
Black Saddle
6
The Fugitive
7.2
Emergency!
7.8
Lassie
6.1
Ironside
6.8
The Monroes
5.7
The Monkees
6.5
Rawhide
7.2
Have Gun, Will Travel
7.4
The Fugitive
7.2
The Outcasts
5.3
The Virginian
6.5
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
6.579
The Big Valley
6.1
Petrocelli
7
Bronco
5.2
The Donna Reed Show
6.2
Hondo
6.5
The Alaskans
5.5
Navy Log
4.5
Black Saddle
6
Branded
6.438
Wanted: Dead or Alive
6.894
The Rifleman
7
Sugarfoot
4.8
Laramie
6.4
Ben Casey
5.6
The Guns of Will Sonnett
6.2
Dundee and the Culhane
4
The Texan
5.5
Stagecoach West
6
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
5.5
Tate
4.5
Stoney Burke
5.7
Johnny Ringo
5.7
General Electric True
0
The Man Called X
0
Harbor Command
4
Letter to Loretta
6.5
The Fugitive
7.2
The Living Christ
5
Maverick
6.8
Maverick
6.8
The Rockford Files
7.5
The Big Valley
6.1
The Big Valley
6.1
The Big Valley
6.1
Sugarfoot
4.8
The Big Valley
6.1
The Big Valley
6.1
The Big Valley
6.1
The Big Valley
6.1
The Big Valley
6.1
Bonanza
7.5
The Virginian
6.5
Gunsmoke
6.6
The Virginian
6.5
Gunsmoke
6.6
The Virginian
6.5
The Virginian
6.5
The Virginian
6.5
Gunsmoke
6.6
Gunsmoke
6.6
Letter to Loretta
6.5
Letter to Loretta
6.5
Letter to Loretta
6.5
Gunsmoke
6.6
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
5.5
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
5.5
Wanted: Dead or Alive
6.894
Bonanza
7.5
Bonanza
7.5
Bonanza
7.5
Sam Benedict
6
Have Gun, Will Travel
7.4
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
6.579
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
7.25
Public Defender
6
Movies
One Man's Way
4
Elvis
6.805
Last Train from Gun Hill
7.1
Good Day for a Hanging
6.2
Cheyenne Autumn
6.7
The Horse Soldiers
6.9
Journey to Shiloh
5.4
How the West Was Won
6.982
A Gathering of Eagles
5.4
Yuma
5.9
A Taste of Evil
5.905
Attack
6.7
The Sex Symbol
3
Suicide Battalion
4.5
Set This Town on Fire
0
A Life at Stake
5.167
The Magnificent Seven
7.509
The Land Unknown
5.6
The Deadly Mantis
4.907
Drango
5.4
Rio Bravo
7.808
Sunset
5.616
Overboard
6.825
Cult of the Cobra
6
Stakeout!
5.7
Cattle Empire
6
The Hallelujah Trail
6.047
A Cry in the Wilderness
6
Madame X
6.524
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
6
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
6.3
Bombers B-52
5.6
The Apple Dumpling Gang
6.552
Dick Tracy
6.149
The Million Dollar Duck
5.8
Satan's School for Girls
5.474
Blackbeard's Ghost
6.7
The Loneliest Runner
6.9
Tango & Cash
6.468
Ride a Violent Mile
4
The Stripper
4.7
Teenage Thunder
5.4
Runaway!
5.3
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
7.5
Death Sentence
5.7
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
0
Big Leaguer
6.2
Flashing Spikes
5.3