{"id":19361,"date":"2022-09-06T09:22:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=19361"},"modified":"2022-09-06T09:22:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:22:14","slug":"book-39-of-52-the-truth-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/book-39-of-52-the-truth-hurts\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 39 (of 52) – The Truth Hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Truth Hurts – Jimmy Piersall with Richard Whittingham<\/p><\/div>\n

In The Truth Hurts<\/em>, Jimmy Piersall, with help from Richard Whittingham, tells the story of his major league career starting in 1953 with his return from “nervous exhaustion” through his tumultuous broadcast career with the White Sox in the late 70s and early 80s.\u00a0 Of course, my interest was in the later parts, working with Harry Caray and his battles with Bill Veeck, Eddie Einhorn, Jerry Reinsdorf, and Tony LaRussa.<\/p>\n

Piersall’s tenure in the White Sox booth was just before my time, so all I knew were a few highlights here and there and stories.\u00a0 If even half of what he says about Tony LaRussa is true, then it is surprising that he ever became the “Hall of Famer baseball person” that he turned out to be.\u00a0 Piersall’s association with the White Sox ended in 1983, but he continued to be a Chicago-area presence until his 2017 death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In The Truth Hurts, Jimmy Piersall, with help from Richard Whittingham, tells the story of his major league career starting in 1953 with his return from “nervous exhaustion” through his tumultuous broadcast career with the White Sox in the late 70s and early 80s.\u00a0 Of course, my interest was in the later parts, working with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,34],"tags":[3292,3291,1055,1670,10168,10169,10167,2428,49],"class_list":["post-19361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","category-baseball","tag-bill-veeck","tag-eddie-einhorn","tag-harry-caray","tag-jerry-reinsdorf","tag-jimmy-piersall","tag-richard-whittingham","tag-the-truth-hurts","tag-tony-larussa","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19363,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19361\/revisions\/19363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}