Jimmy Piersall

28 February 2008

rmous necklaces made out of some animal's teeth that were pretty frightening.

And outfielder, Jimmy Piersall (the subject of the film, "Fear Strikes Out"), who played pretty steadily between 1952 and 1958, and was known, thanks to a bipolar disorder, to do very odd things, like climb foul poles, wear a wig, shoot water pistols, and once, in 1952, got into a fistfight with Billy Martin, when he was a Yankee infielder.

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