Fear Strikes Out

Fear Strikes Out is a 1957 dramatic feature film depicting the life and career of American baseball player Jimmy Piersall. It is based on Piersalls biography Fear Strikes Out The Jim Piersall Story, written by Al Hirshberg. The film stars Anthony Perkins as Piersall and Karl Malden as his father, and it was the first directed by Robert Mulligan.

Based on Piersalls shattering tellall biography, the film traces Piersalls rise from the sandlots of Waterbury, Connecticut, to the Boston Red Sox professional baseball team. Karl Malden plays his domineering father who pushes him further and further.Unable to withstand the pressure, Piersall suffers a nervous breakdown and goes to a mental institution. After a long period of therapy, Jimmy realizes that he has excelled in baseball to please his father not for his own gratification. ........

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