The Legend of Pinky Deras The Greatest LittleLeaguer There Ever Was (2010)

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 youve 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 LittleLeaguer 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 halfcentury 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