LoginFear Strikes Out - Region 1 DVD
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Jim Piersall is groomed by his loving but hard-driving father (living vicariously through his son) to play major league baseball. His desire to succeed to please his father leads to mental illness and a nervous breakdown. Can he overcome those difficulties and return to the major leagues?
From its early scenes of a young Jimmy Piersall literally suffering his father's abusive determination that the boy should play baseball, Robert Mulligan's 1957 Fear Strikes Out becomes more about mental health than love of the game. But this is a compelling drama about the real-life Piersall's gradual breakdown one season before a national a
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Manufacturer: Paramount
Release date: 4 March 2003
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780792186847 UPC: 097360560749
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Release date: 4 March 2003
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780792186847 UPC: 097360560749
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