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Ball Four Plus Ball Five: An Update, 1970-1980 - Jim Bouton
Ball Four Plus Ball Five: An Update, 1970-1980
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780812861464 (0812861469)
Publisher: Madison Books
Pages no: 489
Edition language: English
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travelin
travelin rated it
4.0 Ball Four
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...
willemite
willemite rated it
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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