Peter Votrian

When the record books closed on Boston Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall's career, it showed 17 seasons in the major leagues and an impressive lifetime batting average of .272. But before all that, Piersall faced a foe much tougher: mental illness. Based on the true story.

"John Brighton isn't known as a fighting man, Instead, he's simply Doc to folks in a small 1870s Oklahoma Territory town, a physician who's done more than his share of delivering babies, patching wounds or tending to a child's upset stomach. But when town bullies set out to intimidate and swindle a poor Indian landowner out of his oil-rich property, Doc wants to make things right. And underscoring his actions is a whole history of injustice and racism"--Container....