TV critic's picks Anthony Perkins stars in the 1957 movie "Fear Strikes Out" (1 pm, TCM), a biopic of center fielder Jimmy Piersall and his struggle with what is now known as ... After all, Tiger's just another guy I can never forget Cleveland Indians baseball star Jimmy Piersall and the 1957 movie "Fear Strikes Out." The movie's big scene has actor Anthony Perkins as Piersall hitting a clinch home run. After crossing home plate, he climbs the backstop fence in a mental crack-up moment begging for his overbearing, perfectionist father's approval. It's hard to look away from a crash-and-burn scenario as incendiary as Tiger's. It's Shakespearean in its drama, Greek tragedy in its timelessness, biblical in its moral instruction. Tiger has taken an indefinite hiatus from golf. He has options galore to save his career. His family? That's a whole different story. The guy who h... Television movies for the week of Jan. 3 Boston Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall has a nervous breakdown as a result of intense pressure from his father. (NR) (2:00) TCM: Sat. ...

The New York Mets Beat the Yankees at Yankee Stadium Jimmy Piersall, who led off with a single. Casey Stengel put on the hit and run, and one of his all-time favorites, Hot Rod Kanehl, placed the ball perfectly through the vacated shortstop spot. Williams walked Duke Snider to fill the bases. The noise was deafening. Ed Kranepool, who was born in the Bronx, hit a slow ground ball to third base, where Pedro Gonzalez, whom the Yankees had just brought up from their Richmond farm team, booted it. Former Dodger Tim Harkness singled in two runs for a 4-1 Mets lead, and then Williams made another wild pitch. Billy Moran doubled home the fifth run of the inning. Casey Stengel was walking back and forth in th...