Al Hirshberg

Albert Simon Hirshberg, (c.1910 - 1973), frequently credited as Al Hirshberg, was a Boston-based author and sportswriter who was primarily active in the 1930s - 1960s. He is best known as the co-author of Jimmy Piersall's 1955 autobiography titled Fear Strikes Out: The Jimmy Piersall Story, that was later made into the 1957 film Fear Strikes Out, starring Anthony Perkins. He also wrote several books on the history of the Boston Red Sox baseball team, and co-wrote dozens of other people's memoirs, often, but not exclusively, about baseball players and/or Boston area sports figures and teams. He worked for The Boston Post from 1930-1952 and the Boston Herald from 1964-1968.

Al was married to Bert Cohen Hirshberg (nee Milstone), an editor of Bostonia and benefactor of Boston University. It was her second marriage. They had no children together. She died in a car accident on February 2, 2008. He had four children from an earlier marriage, two sons and two daughters

Hirshberg had retired from sportswriting in the late 1960s and moved to Longboat Key, Florida. He died of a heart attack at a hospital in Sarasota, Florida on April 12, 1973, age 63.

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