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Jimmy Piersall

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Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.


— Jimmy Piersall


#going #happened #i #knew #me

I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.'


— Jimmy Piersall


#die #doctor #how #i #left

I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day.


— Jimmy Piersall


#day #get #hurt #i #next

I didn't mind if they yelled at me, but when they came on the field, it was a different story.


— Jimmy Piersall


#different #field #i #me #mind

I feel great. I had a triple bypass in 1976 and a quadruple bypass in 1984.


— Jimmy Piersall


#feel #great #had #i #i feel

I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.


— Jimmy Piersall


#better #bird #crazy #doing #guys

I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won.


— Jimmy Piersall


#fights #first #first time #had #i

If you want to talk to me, you'll have to put out that cigarette.


— Jimmy Piersall


#me #out #put #talk #want

Nutrition makes me puke.


— Jimmy Piersall


#me #nutrition #puke

We should have won the pennant that year. It was the best club I was ever on.


— Jimmy Piersall


#club #ever #i #pennant #should






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Piersall was reunited with his former combatant Billy Martin who also had been acquired by the team. Piersall came back during the 1961 season earning a second Gold Glove while also finishing third in the batting race with a. Piersall who winters in Arizona and still does a sports radio show in Chicago was invited to a White House event honoring the 2004 World Champions Boston Red Sox on March 2 2005.

James Anthony Piersall (born November 14 1929) is an American former baseball center fielder who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for five teams from 1950 through 1967. Piersall is best 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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