Jimmy Piersall, 1929-2017
Jimmy Piersall died last weekend. He was 87. He was a great outfielder, one of the best I ever saw. But, the thing that made him so well-known is that he was “a character.” Once he ran around the bases backwards. Once he threw a ball at the scoreboard. He was the first bipolar person (manic-depressive, then) in sports to be publicly labeled. He did it himself by writing a remarkable book, Fear Strikes Out., which In 1957, became a […]