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The Legend of Pinky Deras: The Greatest Little-Leaguer There Ever Was
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The Legend of Pinky Deras: The Greatest Little-Leaguer There Ever Was

Aug 23, 2010
0h 42m
★ 0.0

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Blue Hammer Films
Stunt3 Multimedia

Cast

Art "Pinky" Deras

Self

Art "Pinky" Deras

Oliver Darrow

Self - Narrator

Oliver Darrow

Adam Deras

Self

Adam Deras

Mark Modich

Self

Mark Modich

Stan Nalepa

Self

Stan Nalepa

Tom Paciorek

Self

Tom Paciorek

Greg Pniewski

Self

Greg Pniewski

Scott Underwood

Self

Scott Underwood

Lance van Auken

Self

Lance van Auken

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