Duncan Putney

A documentary script

“BAREHANDED CHAMPIONS”
By Tim Norton and Duncan Bruce Putney
WGA #I30709

This exhaustively researched script, tells the forgotten story of the Providence Grays professional baseball team of 1884, the real first World Series champions. The Grays of the National League beat the New York Metropolitans of the American Association three games out of three in the first post season championship series.

The Grays had the first African American player, the first Latino player, and the first Californian to play in the major leagues. Their center fielder was partially deaf and is the reason umpires started using hand signals. In addition to a host of other baseball firsts, the human drama of these barehanded baseball players, including illness, salary disputes, drinking, bigamy, and womanizing is even more compelling.

Status: A fictionalized feature length screenplay based on the documentary is currently in the works and a two page treatment is available.




		A documentary script “BAREHANDED CHAMPIONS” By Tim Norton and Duncan Bruce Putney WGA #I30709 This exhaustively researched script, tells the forgotten story of the Providence Grays professional baseball team of 1884, the real first World Series champions. The Grays of the National League beat the New York Metropolitans of the American Association three games out of three in the first post season championship series. The Grays had the first African American player, the first Latino player, and the first Californian to play in the major leagues. Their center fielder was partially deaf and is the reason umpires started using hand signals. In addition to a host of other baseball firsts, the human drama of these barehanded baseball players, including illness, salary disputes, drinking, bigamy, and womanizing is even more compelling. Status: A fictionalized feature length screenplay based on the documentary is currently in the works and a two page treatment is available.

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