

Fear Strikes Out
(1957)
March 28, 1957• 1h 40m
71%
TMDB ScoreOverview
True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.
Robert Mulligan
Director
Top Billed Cast
AP
Anthony Perkins
Jimmy Piersall
KM
Karl Malden
John Piersall
NM
Norma Moore
Mary Piersall
AW
Adam Williams
Doctor Brown
PW
Perry Wilson
Mrs. John Piersall
PJV
Peter J. Votrian
Jim Piersall as a Boy
RB
Richard Bull
Reporter Slade (uncredited)
MJ
Morgan Jones
Sandy Allen (uncredited)
EB
Edd Byrnes
Boy in Car Assisting Jimmy Up Stairway (uncredited)
BGH
Brian G. Hutton
Bernie Sherwill (uncredited)



















