![]() "Ball Four" was bawdy, lecherous, perverted, debauched, insightful, and laugh-out-loud funny. ![]() He was writing a diary that he planned to publish of what life was like in the big leagues. Playing for the Seattle Pilots, an expansion team so bad they lasted only one season before moving to Milwaukee, Bouton tried to reinvigorate his career as a knuckleballer, all while keeping one major secret from his teammates. At the ripe old age of 24 he was an All-Star, 20 game winner and pitching for the Bronx Bombers in the World Series.īy 1969 at the age of thirty, thanks to perpetual arm injuries, his career was in the toilet. The truth of the matter is, if "Ball Four" were published today, in our politically correct world and era of perpetual victimhood, no major publisher would touch it with a ten-foot pole.īouton, in the early 1960’s, broke into the big leagues with a flourish on a Yankee team that still had the likes of Mantle, Whitey Ford, Elston Howard, and Yogi Berra. ![]() ![]() Last week, Jim Bouton, ex-big-league pitcher and author of one of the most culturally significant sports books ever written, "Ball Four," died with little fanfare at the age of 80. ![]()
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