Word: sox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fear Strikes Out. Psychiatry has a red-hot inning in this film biography of Red Sox Outfielder Jim Piersall. and 24-year-old Actor Anthony Perkins scores in the title role (TIME, March...
Fear Strikes Out. Psychiatry has a red-hot inning in this film biography of Red Sox Outfielder Jim Piersall, and 24-year-old Actor Anthony Perkins scores in the title role (TIME, March...
Fear Strikes Out. Psychiatry has a red-hot inning in this film biography of Red Sox Outfielder Jim Piersall, and 24-year-old Actor Anthony Perkins scores in the title role (TIME. March...
There is Cousin Honora, a whimsical skinflint who counts out the pennies to Leander's family and moves with haughty assurance from painting to the piano to whatnot, casually giving them up in turn and winding up in her old age as a Red Sox fan. But not even Honora can stay in the same league with old Cousin Justina, who is richer still (she married a five-and-dime prince) and dominates the lives of a little circle of pathetic hangers-on who are dependent upon her charity. When she discovers that Leander's son Moses...
...signed by the Red Sox, farmed out to Scranton. He was tremendous as a rookie, batting third in the league. "Well," said father Piersall, "that isn't first." So next year, stoked with aspirin and desperation, Jim burned up the base lines and copped the batting title. At 21 he was called up to the Red Sox. It was the big test. Could he pass it? The dread of failing-failing to live up to his father's demands-threw him into a manic panic. One day in midseason, as the picture tells the story, Jim Piersall went...