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Article: For a week, Watt Powell press box was loud, profane
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- June 18, 2001
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HE WOULD pace the floor of the Watt Powell Park press box, grit
his teeth and scream obscenities at the players on the field. In
sports vernacular, Jimmy Piersall was considered a flake, but he
probably suffered from a mild emotional disorder that contributed to
his occasional bouts of irrational, impulsive and insecure behavior.
By any measure, he is a colorful figure immortalized in baseball
lore.
Those of us who saw him at Watt Powell during the 1989 season
remember him as a likeable fellow but the most intense human being
imaginable. As a roving minor-league outfield instructor for the
Chicago Cubs, Piersall spent a week here that season, working with
the Wheelers, who were a Class A ...