Louis Cardinals; his struggles with health issues, WWI-induced PTSD, alcoholism and epilepsy sidetracked his athletic career, but he was able to overcome with the support of his loyal and dedicated wife Aimee Arrants Alexander (Doris Day)Roogie""s Bump (1954), Republic Pictures"" ale about a "miracle kid" named Remington "Roogie" Rigsby (Robert Marriott); "Roogie" developed an unusual bump above the elbow of his pitching arm, enabling him to pitch a "Super Zoom" ball and become a Major League pitcher; the film featured players from he Brooklyn Dodgers (including Roy Campanella) who played at Ebbets FieldFear Strikes Out (1957), Paramount Pictures"" and director Robert Mulligan""s biographical drama (his debut feature film) was about a real-life major league Boston Red Sox baseball player-center-fielder named Jimmy Piersall (Anthony Perkins) who battled mental illness (schizophrenia) and institutionalization (in the early 1950s), due in part to the pressures brought upon him by his hard-driving and domineering father John (Karl Malden); he film was based on Piersall""s 1955 autobiography co-written with sports journalist Al HirshbergBang the Drum Slowly (1973),Paramount Pictures"" moving and melancholic sports drama featured the tagline: "Nothing is more important than friendship.You see, when anything happens to me good or bad, I make straight for the shampoo bottle.Why would I have to think of that now?Norman: I understand that perfectly.With me, it""s golf balls.If I""m happy or if I""m miserable, I - I putt golf balls around the living room.It makes perfect sense.She tells him about her life story:I can remember my first job singing with the band.And then one night stands clear across country by bus.Putting on nail polish in the ladies rooms of gas stations, waiting on ables.Wow! That was a low point.I""ll never forget it.And I""ll never never do that again, no matter what.But I had to sing.I somehow feel most alive when I""m singing.They arrive at her furnished singles place, and she invites him in to look at her scrapbook.After divulging everything about herself, Esther asks Norman:Have you had enough, as the Republicans used to say?.The meal was interrupted by the two openly-homosexual neighbors two doors down, Jim Olmeyer (Scott Bakula) and Jim Berkley or "JB" (Sam Robards), who delivered a gift basket of flowers and other gifts as a "Welcome o the neighborhood" good-will gesture.A grease bucket, a wrench, and a cracked cylinder." George coldly squeezes his rigger on an advancing German enemy who "looks like a kid about 15 years old" and then casually quips: "He won""t be 16.