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