* Happy birthday, Monty Stratton

May 21, 2008

If they ever made a movie about my life, I’d want to be played by a post-WW II era Jimmy Stewart. He exudes a sense of humor but at the same times plays dark very well.

Stewart played Chicago White Sox pitcher Monty Stratton — born this day in 1912 — in The Stratton Story, a 1949 biopic about the talented ballplayer whose career was cut short when his leg was amputated as the result of a hunting accident.The lanky actor also played a fictional former major leaguer in Strategic Air Command.

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