The Bad News Bears Author:Richard Woodley It was the greatest challenge of Buttermaker's fading career--to whip this bruised and battered gang of "jerks, foreigners, sissies, nose-pickers, deliquents and clumsy little runts" into a winning team. Impossible? Maybe. But a thirsty man can always use a few bucks. And he did have one secret weapon: Amanda, the spitball wizard.