The Baseball Team Who Saved One Another: An Interview with John
Albert  [6 September 2006]  By Jodie Janella Horn  John Albert’s
Wrecking Crew tells the tale of a Los Angeles fast pitch
baseball team’s rise to an unlikely league victory. It is a
tired story: against all odds, the oddballs win. However, the
victory isn’t the revenge of the nerds against the frat boys, or
even the Bad News Bears against posh kids, despite what the
title suggests. These are truly jaded players: men who’ve
galloped with fame and then lost it all, men with inexplicable
predilections for prostitutes or cross-dressing. While Wrecking
Crew‘s hook is the ironic dissonance between the beautiful
stories of a bunch of men with ugly predilections, the meaning
is in the loss of irony.  Albert drummed with hardcore legends
Bad Religion “a few years after the group’s initial underground
success and still some time before a creative resurgence would
result in hit singles, gold records, and a dedicated worldwide
following.” His teammates and c