# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jimmy-piersall
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:32:43.481Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jimmy-piersall"
name: "Jimmy Piersall"
slug: "jimmy-piersall"
description: "James Anthony Piersall was an American baseball center fielder who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for five teams, from 1950 through 1967. Piersall was best known for his well-publicized battle with bipolar disorder that became the subject of a book and a film, Fear Strikes Out."
tagline: "American baseball player (1929-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jimmy_Piersall_1953.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1929-11-14"
deathDate: "2017-06-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.56
  momentum:             0.1479133650290544
  historical:           7.804978666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%89_%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "چيمى پيرسال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Piersall"
    title: "Jimmy Piersall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Piersall"
    title: "Jimmy Piersall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Piersall"
    title: "Jimmy Piersall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Piersall"
    title: "Jimmy Piersall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%94%E3%82%A2%E3%82%BD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB"
    title: "ジミー・ピアソール"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Piersall"
    title: "Jimmy Piersall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%89%E7%B1%B3%C2%B7%E7%9A%AE%E7%88%BE%E7%B4%A2"
    title: "吉米·皮爾索"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3179112"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump