In honor of baseball's opening day on Sunday, I guess...

At 8:00 PM Fear Strikes Out (1957), starring Anthony Perkins in the story of MLB player Jimmy Piersall and his fight to keep his sanity after being relentlessly pushed to perfection on the field by his father (Karl Malden).

Piersall, it may be remembered, was famous for his crazy antics on the field (including running the bases backwards after hitting a home run with the NY Mets) and an eventual mid-season nervous breakdown.

Then at 10:00 PM Pride of the Yankees (1942), starring Gary Cooper as Yankee great Lou Gehrig in the somewhat (by today’s standards) hokey, campy, and overly sentimental story of his career and his battle against what came to be known as “Lou Gehrig’s Disease.”