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Bookshelf Review: Fear Strikes Out

November 5, 2011

by Jimmy Piersall with Al Hirshberg. Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown and Company, 1955. Jimmy Piersall was a two-time All-Star who sent 17 seasons in the Majors…and one summer in a mental institution. That’s the crux of this underrated autobiography from the mid-50s, well ahead of its time in discussing the issue of mental illness. Piersall’s […]

Tagged as: Anthony Perkins, Fear Strikes Out, Jimmy Piersall, Karl Malden

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