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American actor and baseball club owner (–)

Neil Oliver "Bing" Russell (May 5, – April 8, )^[1] was an American actor and Class A minor-league baseball club owner.

He was the father of Hollywood actor Kurt Russell and grandfather of ex–major league baseball player Matt Franco and actor Wyatt Russell.^{[citation needed]}

Early life

Russell was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, the son of Ruth Stewart (née Vogel) and Warren Oliver Russell.

He always wanted to become an actor and studied drama at Brattleboro High School. He grew up around the New York Yankees' spring training camp in St. Petersburg, Florida, in the s and s, where his father ran a floatplane service.

As a result, he was an unofficial mascot of the New York Yankees, and became friendly with players including Lefty Gomez and Joe DiMaggio.^{[2][unreliable source?]} When Lou Gehrig was weakened by illness, he gave Russell the bat he used to hit his last home run bef