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Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues is a book by Major League Baseball pitcher Jim Bouton, edited by Leonard Shecter and first published in 1970.
Apr 26, 2012 · Jim Bouton went on to become a top-flight player. But he became famous, or notorious, for Ball Four, a memoir that described the petty jealousies on the team, as well as camaraderie, raucous...
Jun 1, 1970 · Billed as one of the most (if not the most) important sports book ever, Ball Four reads as a diary of Jim Bouton's struggle to stay relevant in 1969 having reinvented himself as a knuckleball pitcher.
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Nov 16, 2021 · How Jim Bouton's groundbreaking baseball memoir challenged the status quo in sports and society. Learn about his political activism, his revelations about players' drug use, and his portrayal of Mickey Mantle as a flawed hero.
Jul 10, 2019 · Jim Bouton, a pitcher of modest achievement but a celebrated iconoclast who left a lasting mark on baseball as the author of “Ball Four,” a raunchy, shrewd, irreverent — and best-selling —...
Jul 1, 1990 · Twentieth-anniversary edition of a baseball classic, with a new epilogue by Jim Bouton. When first published in 1970, Ball Four stunned the sports world. The commissioner, executives, and players were shocked.
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Jul 11, 2019 · Jim Bouton, the former New York Yankees pitcher who shocked and angered the conservative baseball world with the tell-all book Ball Four, has died. He was 80. Bouton's family said he died ...
