Episode 5 : Jimmy Piersall

Jiimmy Piersall was a baseball player who was hospitalized in a mental institution and made it back to the big leagues after electroshock therapy.

“Fear Strikes Out”, Jim Piersall

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/seasonal-affective-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20364651?p=1https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/seasonal-affective-disorderhttps://www.mlb.com/video/jimmy-piersall-c20021013https://www.mlb.com/redsox/ballpark/museum/hall-of-famehttps://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=piersa001jamhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.fcgi?id=piersji01&t=b&year=1952https://www.macrotrends.net/2484/dow-jones-crash-1929-bear-markethttps://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/1952/05/25/billy-martin-jim-piersall-fight-red-sox-yankees-game/l16laSjvmGq5bztv3cw7QK/story.htmlhttps://www.sportscasting.com/did-jimmy-piersall-really-run-the-bases-backwards-when-he-hit-his-100th-home-run/https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/06/04/jimmy-piersall-dead-at-87https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/bipolar-disorderhttps://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/bipolar-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20355955https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/brain-stimulation-therapies/brain-stimulation-therapies

Episode 4 : Chappie - Ray Chapman

Ray Chapman was a SS for the Cleveland Indians. He died tragically on the field in 1920 after being hit in the head by a pitch from Carl Mays.

“The Pitch That Killed”, Mike Sowell

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/chapmra01.shtmlhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA192008160.shtmlhttps://sabr.org/bioproj/person/Ray-Chapman/https://didthetribewinlastnight.com/blog/2015/01/02/carl-mays-my-attitude-toward-the-unfortunate-chapman-matter/https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/Carl-Mays/https://sabr.org/journal/article/1919-winter-meetings-the-end-of-the-deadball-era/https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/1920-standings.shtmlhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=sewell003joshttps://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/seweljo01.shtmlhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lunteha01.shtmlhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/graneja01.shtmlhttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/08/18/issue.html

Episode 3 : Tugboat - Thurman Munson

Thurman Munson was a catcher for the New York Yankees. He died tragically in a plane crash.

https://www.statscrew.com/minorbaseball/stats/p-53cf0c87

“Munson” by Marty Appel

https://www.newspapers.com/image/186896732/?clipping_id=14417697&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjE4Njg5NjczMiwiaWF0IjoxNjc2NjA3MTI0LCJleHAiOjE2NzY2OTM1MjR9.1vwJx1Acp_9QVjmcnFTk74LNAmdAiWejtAPoDHvagIchttps://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/munsoth01.shtmlhttps://app.ntsb.gov/pdfgenerator/ReportGeneratorFile.ashx?EventID=20041105X01764&AKey=1&RType=Final&IType=FAhttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/sports/thurman-munson-plane-crash-yankees.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_lottery_(1969)

https://www.tcdb.com/ViewSet.cfm/sid/71/1971-Toppshttps://yanksgoyard.com/2016/04/15/yankees-history-yankee-stadium-reopened-40-years-ago-today/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires'_diseasehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_Dukehttps://www.globalair.com/aircraft-for-sale/specifications?specid=73https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA197907240.shtmlhttps://www.capecodbaseball.org/news/index.html?article_id=2875 @SammyThunder ​

“The Catcher Was a Spy”, Nicholas Dawidoff

https://www.statscrew.com/minorbaseball/stats/p-e1e65b3bhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bergmo01-bat.shtmlhttps://jewishbaseballmuseum.com/online-museum/timeline/1930-1940/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raidhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberghttps://www.csmonitor.com/1995/0922/22191.htmlhttps://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/moe-berg

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