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Ball Four
by Jim Bouton
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Wiley (1990-07-12)
ISBN: 0020306652
EAN: 9780020306658
UPC: 021898306654
Dewy Decimal #: 796.357092
Paperback: 465 pages
Edition: 20th Anniversary
SKU: 0086222
Condition: Fair
Comments: Clean and tight ex-library book. Modest shelfwear, primarily on edges, but cover does have minor scratches/creases as well. Stamps and card pocket inside cover/ffep; bumped corner; shelf label taped to spine. Good Reading Copy
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Product Description
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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Amazon.com Review
As a player, former hurler Jim Bouton did nothing half-way; he threw so hard he'd lose his cap on almost every pitch. In the early '70s, he tossed off one of the funniest, most revealing, insider's takes on baseball life in Ball Four, his diary of the season he tried to pitch his way back from oblivion on the strength of a knuckler. The real curve, though, is Bouton's honesty. He carves humans out of heroes, and shines a light into the game's corners. A quarter century later, Bouton's unique baseball voice can still bring the heat.
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