Ball Four
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. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and "social leper." Baseball...
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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. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and "social leper." Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force him to declare the book untrue. Fans, however, loved the book. And serious critics called it an important social document. Today, Jim Bouton is still not invited to Oldtimer's Days at Yankee Stadium. But his landmark book is still being read by people who don'tordinarily follow baseball.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780020306658 (0020306652)
ASIN: 20306652
Publish date: July 1st 1990
Publisher: Wiley
Pages no: 504
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Biography Memoir,
Sports And Games,
Sports,
Baseball
I once met a minor league pitcher who´d read this as part of a sports course at Harvard. The Harvard grad echoed Bouton´s contention that pitching coaches the world over aren´t much more than ball carriers who giveth the ball and taketh away, but like God, never deem it necessary to deliver direct s...
This is one of the seminal shoot beaver and tell books. It opened up the field for sportswriters to come and got Bouton into a fair bit of trouble. It is a must-read for its look at the Yankees of Mantle and Maris days, showing them as the very human people they were. A classic of it's genre.
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