Monty Stratton
American baseball player
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film portrayal by Stewart
- In baseball: Baseball and the arts
… as Chicago White Sox pitcher Monty Stratton, who rebuilt a minor league pitching career after having a leg amputated), and The Jackie Robinson Story (1950; with Robinson playing himself). Somewhat of an anomaly for the time is the biography of outfielder Jimmy Piersall, Fear Strikes Out (1957), which is an…
Read More - In Sam Wood: Later films
…biopic about the baseball player Monty Stratton, who overcame the loss of one leg; James Stewart played the title role, and June Allyson was Stratton’s wife. Finally, there was Ambush (1950), an adequate western about an Indian scout (Robert Taylor) trying to rescue a woman kidnapped by Apaches. Before the…
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