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The Legend of Pinky Deras: The Greatest Little-Leaguer There Ever Was
directed by Buddy Morehouse
201042m
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Since Little League Baseball was founded in 1939, about 40 million kids have played the sport. The list includes future Hall of Famers like Carl Yastrzemski, Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan, and hundreds of other future Major Leaguers. But of all the kids who ever played Little League, the best of the best was a boy you’ve probably never heard of: Art “Pinky” Deras. In the summer of 1959, he led the team from Hamtramck, Mich., to the Little League World Series title, and in the process, he put together a Little League season the likes of which we might never see again. His amazing story comes to life in “The Legend of Pinky Deras: The Greatest Little-Leaguer There Ever Was,” a new film from Blue Hammer Films. Pinky received a ton of national publicity back in 1959, but then he fell off the map. In the half-century since he lit the Little League world on fire, there have been no films about him, no magazine stories, not even a single newspaper article.
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Art "Pinky" Deras
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Oliver Darrow
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Adam Deras
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Mark Modich
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Stan Nalepa
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Tom Paciorek
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Greg Pniewski
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Scott Underwood
Self
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Director
Buddy Morehouse
Language
EN
