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 (2010)

Directed by Brian Kruger, Buddy Morehouse

Documentary · 42m

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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Cast

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Art "Pinky" Deras Self
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Oliver Darrow Self - Narrator
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Adam Deras Self
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Mark Modich Self
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Stan Nalepa Self
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Tom Paciorek Self
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Greg Pniewski Self
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Scott Underwood Self
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Lance van Auken Self

Crew

Director
Brian Kruger, Buddy Morehouse
Writer
Buddy Morehouse
Editor
Oliver Darrow

Details

Release date
2010-08-23
Runtime
42m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America
Production
Blue Hammer Films, Stunt3 Multimedia