Jimmy Piersall

James Anthony Piersall (born November 14, 1929 in Waterbury, Connecticut) is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball. Between 1950 and 1967, he played for the Boston Red Sox (1950, 1952-58), Cleveland Indians (1959-61), Washington Senators (1962-63), New York Mets (1963) and Los Angeles & California Angels (1963-67).

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While he had a fairly good professional career as a center fielder, Piersall is better known for his well-publicized battle with bipolar disorder which became the subject of the movie Fear Strikes Out.

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Piersall was an outstanding athlete. He led his Leavenworth (Waterbury, CT) High School basketball team to the 1947 New England championship, scoring 32 points in the final game, in a era when hardly any players scored 20 points in a game.

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1929: 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar)....

Waterbury, Connecticut: Waterbury is a city located in New Haven County, Connecticut. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 107,271. It is the fifth-largest city in Connecticut....

Center fielder: A center fielder, abbreviated CF, is the outfielder in baseball who plays defense in center field - the baseball fielding position between left field and right field (e.g., "Mickey Mantle was a center fielder"). In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the center fielder is assigned t...

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