Contender: Triumph, Tragedy and Canadian Baseball Player Harry Fisher

Harry Fisher was a good-looking farm kid from southwestern Ontario, that fertile breeding ground of Canadian baseball stars. After a rapid rise through the minor leagues, Harry made it to the Show, called up to pitch for the big-league Pittsburgh Pirates in the summer of 1952.Nicknamed "e;the handsome Hollywood hurler"e; from his time with the Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League, Harry had...