before playing an ex-professional baseball player in “The Bad News Bears” (1976). Vic Morrow, 47, starred in a string of successful films before landing the role of Yankees coach Roy Turner in ...

The Bad News Bears is about kids ... while Yankees coach Roy Turner (Vic Morrow) is as quick to deliver pompously high-minded lectures about competition as he is to slap his own son for disobeying ...

You could argue that, on its face, the original Bad News Bears pushes a similarly reassuring ... to piss off the councilman and everyone else (like Vic Morrow, as the coach of a rival team ...

and a volatile baseball coach in “The Bad News Bears,” was on this day ... television and film, Vic lives forever.” One of Morrow’s friends, Rick Jason, gave a reporter his opinion of ...

Chip Saunders (Vic Morrow) as they battled their way across ... from ”Blackboard Jungle” to ”The Bad News Bears,” he probably is best remembered by many for his ”Combat!” ...