Chapman and Maclain Way’s energetic telling of one of baseball’s great, unheralded stories is as much about independent spirit as it is about the game. When Portland, Oregon, lost its longtime minor-league affiliate, Bing Russell—who briefly played ball professionally before enjoying a successful Hollywood acting career—bought the territory and formed a single-A team to operate outside the confines of major-league baseball. When they took the field in 1973, the Mavericks—the only independent team in America—started with two strikes against them. What did Deputy Clem from Bonanza know about baseball? Or Portland, for that matter? The only thing uniting his players, recruited at open tryouts, was that no other team wanted them. Skeptics agreed that it could never work.　　But Bing understood a ballplayer’s dreams, and he understood an audience. His quirky, unkempt castoffs won games, and they won fans, shattering minor-league attendance records. Their spirit was contagious, and during their short reign, the Mavericks—a restaurant owner turned manager, left-handed catcher, and blackballed pitcher among them—brought independence back to baseball and embodied what it was all about: the love of the game.　　- J.N.种族说明：(🏎)母皇产的卵，本(běn )身(shēn )无任何(hé )攻击力(lì(🍍) )，无移动能力，依靠幼虫移动，能够吸收绿毯(🥜)中的营养物(📐)质(zhì )，从而是使自己成长(zhǎng )为(wéi )成熟期，幼虫吞噬成(😇)熟期的虫卵之后会进化成各种(🚘)各样的生物。