How a 'Crude Bunch of Kids' Struck Gold With 'The Bad News Bears'
How a ‘Crude Bunch of Kids’ Struck Gold With ‘The Bad News Bears’ Silver Streak. Right there among them is a ragtag group of little leaguers known as The Bad News Bears. "This was not a big picture," Stanley Jaffe, the movie’s producer admitted to the New York Daily News. “But we were this little picture that could at the end." It was Jaffe who initially fell in love with The Bad News Bears script, although the early version was a far cry from what would end up onscreen. “We changed the whole last half of the picture from the script that I was presented with,” the producer ...