Fear Strikes Out (1957)
Directed by Robert Mulligan
True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.
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With his mandatory father-son weightlifting sessions and refusal to brook the slightest rebellion, Ronald is a sports-dad nightmare up there with Karl Malden in “Fear Strikes Out,” but part of the tragedy is that we understand him.